The Essential Pasta Cookbook

Filled or unfilled, fresh or dried, pasta of any variety makes every meal worth eating. Which is why you’ll want to station this everything-you-want-to-know-about-pasta cookbook front and forward in your kitchen. This book celebrates the delicious simplicity of classics passed down through generations, as well as innovative recipes with a contemporary twist. Whether you like your pasta pesto, creamy, or marinara, whether you like steaming lasagna or cold pasta salad, slow baked or pasta pronto, pasta entrees or sides or pasta desserts, they don’t call this cookbook ESSENTIAL for nothing.

Founded in 1977, Whitecap Books has grown to become one of the top ten Canadian-owned book publishing and distribution companies. During the 1970s and early 1980s Whitecap made a name for itself as Canada's foremost producer of full-color gift and coffee table books on Canadian provinces, cities, and natural wonders. The company continues to publish in this area and has launched a 27-book series on Canada and 36 books in the America Series.

Whitecap's list of titles currently consists of more than 300 Canadian-originated titles and more than 1,000 agency listed titles. Whitecap is known for its expertise in the cookbook market. Since 1984, Whitecap has been responsible for some of the most innovative and familiar titles that can be found in kitchens across North America today. In addition to cookery, Whitecap publishes and distributes books on gardening and crafts, photo-scenic, history, arts and entertainment, children's fiction and non-fiction, travel, sports and transportation books.