{"id":7,"date":"2007-08-24T16:32:38","date_gmt":"2007-08-24T20:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gastropoda.com\/readings\/2007\/08\/matchmaking\/"},"modified":"2007-09-03T13:49:05","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T17:49:05","slug":"matchmaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/readings\/2007\/08\/matchmaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Matchmaking"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe Top One Hundred Pasta Sauces\u201d
\nDiane Seed (Ten Speed Press)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pasta is the anti-jazz: Improvisation destroys it. If you want something as good as you could get in Italy, you have to follow a recipe. Religiously.<\/p>\n

Diane Seed\u2019s recipes may not always be what the Pope would order, but they are by far the most accessible I have found collected between two cardboard covers. They range all over the map of Italy with a good mix of pantry staples (tuna, walnuts, chickpeas) and super-fresh ingredients (basil, asparagus, arugula), with a minimum of posturing. Giuliano Bugialli admittedly dictates a superior bucatini all\u2019amatriciana, but Seed\u2019s is quicker and almost as satisfying. Hers is the book to open for an easy meal, not a production.<\/p>\n

\u201cSauces\u201d is no walk in Tuscany. It has no index, which is frustrating, and measurements are given in metric first, U.S. equivalent second, which can be off-putting. But all the sauces are grouped by main ingredient, and few involve more than a handful of steps to perfection. Just do what she says, nothing more or less.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe Top One Hundred Pasta Sauces\u201d Diane Seed (Ten Speed Press) Pasta is the anti-jazz: Improvisation destroys it. If you want something as good as you could get in Italy, you have to follow a recipe. Religiously. Diane Seed\u2019s recipes may not always be what the Pope would order, but they are by far the… Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-italian","category-pasta","category-venerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/readings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/readings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/readings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/readings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/readings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/readings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/readings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/readings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/readings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}