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Title: good for the beginner, poor for the intermediate
Review: I'm Italian, and I love to cook Italian food. In fact, we don't like to go to Italian chain restaurants anymore because we can make it much better (and cheaper) at home. I'll admit, I'm an Italian cooking snob [kinda]. Based on this, I have multiple cookbooks dealing only with pasta. And when I saw this at a yard sale, I figured it was worth a shot.That said, when I'm making pasta, this is probably the last cookbook I reach for. It has more recipes in it than my other resources do, but I think I've only used a recipe from it once. It would be good for the beginner. But if you have the skill, for instance, to start with garden tomatoes and finish with your own sauce, you should try some of the classier (and less dated) books out there.
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