plaidpladd 's review for:

The Discovery of Pasta: A History in Ten Dishes by Luca Cesari

3.0

informative slow-paced

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This was a good concept, and I did learn some things, but the format of the book really undermined it in the end. I think it would have been better to do a chronological history of pasta instead of focusing each chapter on a different dish, which meant for jumping backwards and forwards in time and a lot of repetition, since obviously the origins of pasta as a concept were much the same for many. Also, just so much extraneous detail and entire recipes quoted when a simple sentence explaining the small differences would have been less exhausting. I finished it, but it was definitely a slog at times.