I learned a lot about cooking pasta beyond spaghetti and marinara sauce from this book.

Lots of yummy Italian pasta dishes to enjoy.

Pasta lover 101

Great layout with tons of easy pasta recipes. Again I love all the history lessons & fun facts about ingredients as you go along.

A whole book about pasta.. what more can an Italian ask for?
This had some pretty good recipes that I'm hoping to try at some point, and came with a homemade pasta recipe that seems promising!

This is my favorite cookbook by De Laurentiis so far. The recipes are simpler and seem to be more appealing to my taste. There are many color photos of the recipes which I find especially helpful in a cookbook. I have picked two recipes to try from this book and will update my review once I have made them.

Giada is my favorite Food Network chef! Her meals are not only easy and fun to prepare -- they are absolutely delicious, and for the most part, healthy. I like how this book centers on pasta -- because face it, most of us who cook Italian, want to cook pasta!

I have used this cookbook for many years but wanted to dive into it again with fresh, hungry eyes. My favorite from this is Orcheitte with greens and goat cheese which I have made for lunch or a light dinner on a hot day. I decide to add the salad with citrus vinaigrette to my quarantine lunch salad menu. I love the emphasis on moderation of pasta instead of total abstinence and the fact that it can be included in healthy recipes. She adds so many veggies and good fats like olive oil and nuts that it is hard not to get excited about pasta again!

A great book! I love how Giada is more realistic about cooking than some chefs- most of the recipes really are fairly simple, her pantry staples consist of many items I do actually keep on hand, and she is not afraid of pre-packaged ingredients. She also incorporates low-fat and low-sodium ingredients directly into many of her recipes. I started a list of which recipes I wanted to try and realized it was so long that I needed to go buy this book (I had borrowed it from the library). Yummy!

There are some nice ideas in here. It's a small cookbook, but worth having.

I like the conversational tone of Giada's cookbooks, and the ingredients and instructions themselves are uncomplicated. I picked the pasta book over her more general Italian fare because I'm a pretty novice cook and spaghetti is always simple, quick, and delicious enough, but i need help in the creativity department where my meals are concerned.

Another exceptional cookbook from Giada De Laurentiis.

This is a well written cookbook. You won't find anything overly complicated or fussy in here. There are several recipes that caught my eye and that I look forward to cooking:

1) Farfalle with Creamy Mushroom Gorgonzola Sauce

2) Angel Hair Pasta with Sun Dried Tomatoes and Goat Cheese

3) Wagon Wheels with Artichoke Pesto