Title:	The Complete Book of Pasta Sauces: The Best Italian Pestos, Marinaras, Ragùs, and Other Cooked and Fresh Sauces for Every Type of Pasta Imaginable
	Author:	Allan Bay
	Published:	October 18, 2022, Harvard Common Press
	No. of Pages:	256
	Cover Price:	$27.90 Paperback, $14.99 Kindle

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The Complete Book of Pasta Sauces: The Best Italian Pestos, Marinaras, Ragùs, and Other Cooked and Fresh Sauces for Every Type of Pasta Imaginable is a cookbook that belongs on every cookbook shelf. It has dozens of sauces that can be used on all kinds of pasta, as well as other things like crostini, gnocchi, potatoes, meats, poultry, and fish. In fact, every recipe has suggestions as to what to use the sauce on, i.e., types of pasta, crostini, cooked meat and fish, etc., as well as what the dish goes well with. These are helpful suggestions and will give readers great ideas for full meals that aren’t boring. Not only does this book cover pasta sauces, but it features recipes for basic sauces that are used in all sorts of dishes that aren’t pasta.

The recipes are written in the traditional manner with step-by-step instructions that are easy to follow. These recipes are straightforward and suitable for both beginning and advances cooks.
Unfortunately, most of the photographs, which are actually beautiful, are of the ingredients in the sauces rather than finished dishes. This is the only negative aspect of the cookbook and isn’t really a game changer, since the sauces are diverse and tempting.

All told, this is an excellent cookbook and will give readers a good variety of sauces to serve for months.

Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.