Pasta for All Seasons: Dishes that Celebrate the Flavors of Italy and the Bounty of the Pacific Northwest

by Michela Tartaglia

Fresh ingredients, fresh pasta, innovative dishes. What’s not to like? Rising Seattle chef Michela Tartaglia has developed 50 seasonal recipes that showcase the best of Northwest seafood, produce, and meat in creative, delicious pasta dishes. Michela is the co-founder and chef of Pasta Casalinga, a Pike Place Market counter restaurant that serves up new dishes each week from the garden, the ocean, and the farm.

Using favourite ingredients such as salmon and clams and foodie favourites like nettles and chanterelles, this book offers home cooks regional, seasonal pasta dishes that are as comforting as a favourite spaghetti or fettucine dish but as bold and exciting as a hot new restaurant entrée. In addition, a pasta primer helps home cooks make fresh pasta at home and choose the right pasta shape for the right sauce or dish.

• ISBN10: 1632174278
• ISBN13: 9781632174277
• Publish Date: 25 April 2023
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Sasquatch Books
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 176
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9781632174277

Reviews

[annieb123]

Originally posted on my blog Nonstop Reader.

Pasta for All Seasons is an attractive and well written cookbook with recipes written and curated by Michela Tartaglia. Released 25th April 2023 by Penguin Random House on their Sasquatch Books imprint, it's 176 pages and is available in hardcover and ebook formats. 

This is a nice fusion of well written traditional regional Italian pasta which also utilizes and celebrates local ingredients from the Pacific Northwest. Recipes are arranged thematically by season: Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter. 

Recipes include background/introduction, ingredients in a bullet list sidebar, and step-by-step preparation instructions. Ingredient measurements are provided in Imperial (American) units only. Most ingredients will be readily available at any large/well stocked grocery store. Some recipes in the collection will require specialty pastas, mushrooms, meats and shellfish which will need specialty sources. 

The book is wonderfully photographed throughout with one or more photos for each recipe, but not all all show the completed dish. Serving suggestions are attractive and appropriate and the dishes are professionally styled. These recipes are advanced and nuanced and will require some expertise, but should be within the capabilities of a keen home cook/foodie. 

The author/publisher have also included a cross-referenced index and resource list for some ingredients. 

Four and a half stars. This is a beautifully written specialty cookbook with attractive (very fancy/trendy) dishes virtually guaranteed to impress and delight a foodie's heart. 

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.