The Pasta Codex: 1001 Recipes

A wonderfully retro-styled tome--there's no pomp or pretense, no self-indulgent stories (however much we love them)--just recipe upon recipe for pasta! I knew I'd love this book when the first recipe I tried, the salsa di noci, was one that I've had in my mental catalog for more than 20 years but could not properly execute. If you love to cook pasta, you have to have this book.