This 2004 Ten Speed Press cookbook by Diane Seed and Robert Budwig contains 100 pasta sauce recipes, with 8 indexed on Cookbooker that have generated 9 member reviews averaging 3.8 out of 5 stars. The most frequently reviewed recipes are Spaghetti al Tonno e Limone, Pasta con Verdura, and Tagliatelle with walnuts and mascarpone. The book itself has received a 4 out of 5 rating from 2
I was quite surprised that 90% of the recipes in this book call for cream or marscapone (or both). I'm not a fat hater; I'm completely open to cream sauces but where's the variety here? How about more tomato sauces? The sauce I made thus far was quite good. I will continue to try the book here and there, it's just not the end-all pasta sauce book I would have imagined.
Two words: rustic beauty.
First of all, the hand-drawn illustrations make each page into a visual treat. It's full of original and simple Italian recipes, using very basic ingredients with an emphasis on freshness.
The book is broken down by main ingredient into multiple sections, and each one begins with a bit of trivia about that particular ingredient or memories of a recipe that the author had in a particular region of Italy.
I love this cookbook.