Should You Put Oil in Pasta Water?

Only if you want slimy spaghetti.

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How to Make Fresh Pasta

It isn’t intimidating.

Two food authors are blogging our edible past.

Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken" by Laura Schenone. Great read and great resource guide in the back of the book (which it finally occured to me to look in for sources for corzetti stamps, and the source listed was the one MacArthur...

Not sure if this is quite what you have in mind but I listened to a short talk by author Laura Schenone who wrote “A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove: A History of American Women Told Through Food, Recipes and Remembrances...

I read Laura Schenone's book. That’s how I found about the ravioli rolling pin. But I already knew about the stretching involved in using a rolling pin to roll out pasta. You need to do this to some degree with almost all...

Here’s a short video clip from our own Chow, with Laura Schenone making homemade pasta. She is the author of the wonderful The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken. In her travels through Italy searching for an authentic ravioli...

Run, don’t walk, to your local library or bookstore and get “The Lost Ravioli Recipies of Hoboken” by Laura Schenone. This is the ULTIMATE ravioli book with many tips throughout – great reading plus...

Add Jen Lin-Liu, Serve the People: A Stir-Fried Journey through China. Also The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken: A Search for Food and Family by Laura Schenone. She tracks down her hallowed family recipe to the batterd old...