Accented by full-color photos and drawings, Hugh Carpenter and Teri Sandison's Hot Pasta offers tips on how to make your own from scratch (it's not as hard as you'd imagine!) and how to identify all of the different pasta shapes. It also includes fifty easy pasta recipes from the authors of the bestselling Hot cookbook series. Dishes featured: * California Lo Mein * Mediterranean Pasta with Seared Tuna * Pan-fried Pasta with Clams * Pasta with Olives * Southwest Lamb Lasagna * Thai Primavera with Coconut Chiles and Limes * Tomatoes and Artichokes