From award-winning British food writer Rachel Roddy, columnist for the Guardian (UK), the essential book for pasta lovers and fans of all things Italian, featuring a mouth-watering, alphabetical collection of 100 recipes, covering 50 different pasta shapes, from agnolotti to ziti, and everything in between.

This is the story of pasta. Here -award-winning food writer Rachel Roddy has lived and cooked in Rome for over a decade. She has spent years browsing bucolic Italian markets, cooking with fresh and seasonal vegetables, discovering cheeses, and perfecting the art of making Italy’s favorite food: pasta. Now, she has condensed everything she’s learned about pasta in a practical, alphabetical, highly entertaining collection of pasta and pasta sauce recipes that will ensure authentic Italian meals and take your pasta dishes to the next level. In this cookbook, you will learn the many ways to pair pasta shapes with sauce, how to make certain pastas from scratch, and how to best serve them—from Cavatelli with Sausage, Tomato and Mint to Capelli with Shrimp. There are also short essays that weave together the history, culture and the astonishing variety of pasta shapes from the tip to the toe of Italy.

Featuring the familiar favorites—pesto, ragù and carbonara—and new twists on classics, as well as tricks and techniques for maximum flavor, An A-Z of Pasta is a glorious celebration of pasta from one of the best food writers of our time.

RACHEL RODDY was born in Southampton in the UK in 1972 and grew up near London. She trained at Drama Center London, then moved to Rome in 2005, where she began writing, mostly about food, on her blog Rachel Eats. Her first book, Five Quarters was published in 2015 and won the André Simon Memorial Fund food book Award and The Guild of Food writers First Book Award. Her second book Two Kitchens was published in 2017. She has written for The Financial Times, Noble Rot, Vanity Fair, National Geographic and Eater, and has a weekly column in The Guardian called A Kitchen in Rome. She lives in Rome with her Sicilian partner and son.