Calling all past lovers! Food writer Rachel Roddy condenses everything she has learned about Italy's favourite food in a practical, easy, and mouth-watering collection of 100 essential pasta and pasta sauce recipes. This book will tell you how to match pasta shapes with sauces, and how to serve them. Includes familiar staples like pesto, ragù and carbonara as well as unfamiliar, but thrilling, dishes. Along with the recipes are short essays that weave together the history, culture, and the everyday life of pasta shapes from the tip to the toe of Italy.