Pasta Veloce: Irresistibly Fast Recipes from Under the Tuscan Sun

by Frances Mayes, Susan Wyler, Steven Rothfield (Photographer)

Overview

From Frances Mayes, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun, Pasta Veloce offers the most delicious 30-minute Tuscan pasta recipes.

Frances Mayes is known for transporting readers to the charming Italian countryside in her bestselling books. In Pasta Veloce, Mayes brings that irresistible Italian flavor right to your home with 100 of her favorite pasta recipes. These well-loved recipes blend traditional Italian technique with magic from Mayes’s home kitchen where experiments are always in progress. Pasta is the most versatile food on Earth. And if you do it right: fast!

This cookbook offers a multitude of under-30-minute luscious recipes, all accompanied by Mayes’s evocative text. While there are numerous pasta cookbooks, few feature a true Italophile’s passion and eye for detail that can get a dish to the table in, as Mayes describes, “the time it takes to boil water.” With a Tagliatelle with Duck Confit, Chestnuts, and Coffee Reduction and a glittering Capellini with Golden Caviar to the perfect vodka sauce, Pasta Veloce is your guide on those nights when you’re ready to skip the whole production of it but still want to eat like royalty in a rustic Italian village.

Includes Color Photographs

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781419763144
Publisher:	Abrams
Publication date:	04/18/2023
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	509,997
Product dimensions:	8.20(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Frances Mayes is the international bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun and The Tuscan Sun Cookbook. The award-winning movie by the same title was based off of her memoir. She is also the author of A Year in the World, Bella Tuscany, Every Day in Tuscany, Women in Sunlight, and Bringing Tuscany Home, among others. She and her husband divide their time between North Carolina and Tuscany.

Editorial Reviews

This collection of smart, seasonal recipes includes both cool takes on season extension and preservation but also recipes simple enough to hand off to the kids for a cook’s night off.

Andrea Reusing - James Beard Award winner

Pasta Veloce is one of those rare cookbooks that can make cooking at home not only a treat but a breeze. Go through this book and you will find so many delicious—and fast—recipes that the most difficult thing you’ll have to do is pick which one!

Nancy Silverton - James Beard Outstanding Chef

Frances Mayes takes us through the Italian kitchen with the same comfort and style with which she takes us through the cities and countryside of Italy. Susan Wyler adds her own fabulous veloce recipes that propel us toward the stove. The Ten-Minute Tomato Sauce has become my go-to for a quick dinner from the pantry, and the Sicilian Citrus Pesto is great not only on pasta but on anything from sliced tomatoes to grilled fish.

Sara Foster - former chef for Martha Stewart

What a brilliant concept—I picked up many tips to enhance flavors while cutting time spent at the stove. While Pasta Veloce brings home the ultimate comfort food, it also showcases its elegant, healthful, and spontaneous qualities.

Suvir Saran - Michelin-starred chef and author of Indian Home Cooking and Masala Farm

Pasta Veloce is one of those rare cookbooks that can make cooking at home not only a treat but a breeze. Go through this book and you will find so many delicious—and fast—recipes that the most difficult thing you’ll have to do is pick which one!”—James Beard Outstanding Chef, owner of Osteria Mozza, and author of The Mozza Cookbook, Nancy Silverton

“Frances Mayes takes us through the Italian kitchen with the same comfort and style with which she takes us through the cities and countryside of Italy. Susan Wyler adds her own fabulous veloce recipes that propel us toward the stove. The Ten-Minute Tomato Sauce has become my go-to for a quick dinner from the pantry, and the Sicilian Citrus Pesto is great not only on pasta but on anything from sliced tomatoes to grilled fish.”—former chef for Martha Stewart, founder of Foster’s Markets, and published cookbook author, Sara Foster

“What a brilliant concept—I picked up many tips to enhance flavors while cutting time spent at the stove. While Pasta Veloce brings home the ultimate comfort food, it also showcases its elegant, healthful, and spontaneous qualities.”—Michelin-starred chef and author of Indian Home Cooking and Masala Farm, Suvir Saran

“This collection of smart, seasonal recipes includes both cool takes on season extension and preservation but also recipes simple enough to hand off to the kids for a cook’s night off.”—James Beard Award winner, owner of Lantern Restaurant, and author of Cooking in the Moment, Andrea Reusing

From the Publisher

This collection of smart, seasonal recipes includes both cool takes on season extension and preservation but also recipes simple enough to hand off to the kids for a cook’s night off.

James Beard Award winner, activist, chef and owner of Lantern Restaurant, and author of Cooking in the Moment - Andrea Reusing

What a brilliant concept—I picked up many tips to enhance flavors while cutting time spent at the stove. While Pasta Veloce brings home the ultimate comfort food, it also showcases its elegant, healthful, and spontaneous qualities.”

Michelin-starred chef and author of Indian Home Cooking and Masala Farm - Suvir Saran

Frances Mayes takes us through the Italian kitchen with the same comfort and style with which she takes us through the cities and countryside of Italy. Susan Wyler adds her own fabulous veloce recipes that propel us toward the stove. The Ten-Minute Tomato Sauce has become my go-to for a quick dinner from the pantry, and the Sicilian Citrus Pesto is great not only on pasta but on anything from sliced tomatoes to grilled fish.

former chef for Martha Stewart, founder of Foster’s Markets, and author of The Foster’s Market Cookbook and - Sara Foster

Pasta Veloce is one of those rare cookbooks that can make cooking at home not only a treat but a breeze. Go through this book and you will find so many delicious—and fast—recipes that the most difficult thing you’ll have to do is pick which one!

James Beard Outstanding Chef, owner of Osteria Mozza, Pizzeria Mozza, and author of The Mozza Cookbook - Nancy Silverton