Orlando Bird

There are no ‘correct’ recipes when it comes to pasta

Luca Cesari argues that pasta is a living thing, changing with the times, and has never been bound by tradition, as the vigilante nonnas insist

A 19th-century watercolour of a macaroni seller in Naples. [Alamy]
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  • A Brief History of Pasta: The Italian Food that Shaped the World

    Luca Cesari, translated by Johanna Bishop

    Profile, pp. 344, £16

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