Shaping Pasta: A Flip Book

Flip--watch--make--eat...repeat! In this first-ever cookbook flip-book, you will learn how fast and easy it is to create hand-shaped pasta by flipping your way through every knead, touch, pinch, and press of the pasta-making process.

Try your hand at this traditional and authentic way of making homemade pasta. Each pasta shape--there are nine shapes to learn--is brought to cinematic motion as you flip through the pasta-shaping process. These simple pastas require no special equipment, no more than three ingredients, and can be hand-shaped in ten minutes from dough to done. From making cavatelli to orecchiette, strozzapreti to pici, once you see how easy it is, you'll be making homemade pasta on a Tuesday night--pronto. Recipes include one master dough and nine sauces; half of the sauces are quick and simple (and for many, the pasta cooks in the sauce--no boiling required) and half are more Sunday supper style. With hundreds of cinema verité-style black-and-white photographs, plus a full-color shot of each finished pasta dish, you'll be on your way to creating delicious homemade pasta, such as One-Pan Cavatelli with Herb Butter Sauce; Pici with Saffron, Clams, and Lemon; and Capunti with Sunday Sauce.