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“A pasta lover’s delight and a culinary treasure that can provide the basis and foundation for memorable gatherings of family and friends.” —The Midwest Book Review

Pasta Friday is a weekly pasta tradition that turns neighbors into friends, and friends into family. Restaurateur and food writer Allison Arevalo shows you how to start your own tradition by cooking comforting, delicious pasta dishes to feed your family on a busy weeknight, or for a crowd on the weekend.

It’s not about entertaining, but sitting down with family and friends to eat together, and connect over big bowls of cannolicchi with red pepper sauce, pappardelle with slow-cooked pork ragu, trofie with pesto, and more.

Find the right dish for any week of the year from the 52 comforting pasta dishes and 16 creative salads, organized by season. And, be sure to sprinkle in some extras like crispy, spicy prosciutto, lemon breadcrumbs. Each recipe uses a different pasta shape, so you can have fun experimenting with calamarata, gnocchetti, paccheri, and mafalda, or simply using traditional spaghetti. There are plenty of tips for scaling the recipes up for a crowd, shopping on a budget, and finding time to cook, along with wine pairings, and gorgeous photography. You’ll fall in love with the Pasta Friday tradition, and start hosting your own before you know it.

“A true testament that grace, kindness, and generosity can help build community and spread love for good food while nurturing a peaceful and joyful world, especially for our children.” —Rolando Beramendi, author of Autentico: Cooking Italian, the Authentic Way

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"The Pasta Friday Cookbook: Let's Eat Together is a collection of those 52 pasta recipes and 16 salads, arranged by season, as well as tips on how to build community with your own gathering." ― Berkeleyside

“Even though we all love to cook, sometimes we need a dish that almost puts itself together and many of these recipes do just that. Package this book up with a nice bottle of olive oil the next time you are invited to someone’s home for dinner – it makes the perfect gift.” ― Eat Your Books --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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Allison Arevalo is a restaurateur, chef, and food writer. She co-founded Homeroom restaurant in Oakland, California and co-authored the best-selling Mac and Cheese Cookbook. Allison has made numerous TV appearances on the Travel Channel, the C --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC; Illustrated edition (17 September 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Allison Arevalo is an entrepreneur, chef, and food writer. Before starting the Pasta Friday movement, she co-founded Homeroom restaurant in Oakland, California and co-authored the best-selling Mac and Cheese cookbook.

Allison has made numerous TV appearances on the Travel Channel, the Cooking Channel, and others, and she’s been featured on local and national news outlets, including the Wall Street Journal and the Restaurant Unstoppable podcast.

When she’s not cooking or writing, you’ll find her running through windy trails or over the Brooklyn Bridge. Although this book was written while she lived in Oakland, Allison now lives in Brooklyn with her husband Alejandro and their two sons, Nico and Luca. Find her at pastafriday.com and on social channels @pastafriday.

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Sue S

Not just a recipe book

Reviewed in Canada on 15 June 2022

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Some great relaxing ways to entertain

Jill Nicely

pasta party

Reviewed in the United States on 15 October 2019

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Allison Arevalo has created a community filled with friends and family, with neighbors and school mates, and with pasta lovers of all ages. She and her family host a weekly pasta dinner, and she wants you to do it too. In her new cookbook, The Pasta Friday Cookbook, she walks about how she is able to pull off a weekly gathering of friends and family and then shares 52 different pasta recipes that you can use to start your own Pasta Fridays.

First of all, Arevalo sets rules. She makes a pasta dish and a salad, and that’s it. No appetizers, no desserts (although she does get popsicles for the kids). She doesn’t cater to special diets—anyone who wants to eat gluten-free or vegetarian/vegan can bring their own meals. She does make a big pot of pasta with butter for the kids, but she also encourages them to try the “adult” pasta as well. The clean up all gets done Friday night, so Saturday isn’t spent cleaning up the kitchen. And all the adults bring 2 bottles of wine, and everyone eats and talks and laughs and drinks together.

The Pasta Friday Cookbook is packed with 52 pasta ideas, divided by season. Each week features a different shape of pasta, so with the help of a good local Italian market or the internet, you could cook a different style of noodle every week for a year. She also includes a wide variety of sauces to serve with the pasta, with seasonal vegetables, quality cheeses, a wide assortment of meats and seafood, and a really good olive oil.

It sounds like a lot of work to create a different pasta every week for a group of people, but Arevalo’s recipes tend toward the simple and rustic. She chooses quality ingredients that will be packed with flavor, cooks them simply, and lets the dishes speak for themselves. And she also includes four salad recipes for each season as well as a host of recipe for extras that can be set out to accompany the pasta, like Homemade Breadcrumbs, Fried Capers, Salsa Verde, and Basic Pesto.

She starts with summer (but you can start at any time of the year, of course), with recipes like Bucatini with Summer Corn and Pancetta and Pam’s Pasta with Sausage, Tomatoes, and Peaches. Fall brings heartier dishes like Broken-Up Chicken Parm with Cestini or Duck Lasagne with Roasteed Carrots. Winter offers the filling comfort of Linguine with Dungeness Crab, Scallops, and Clams and Veal Marsala with Escarole and Stringozzi. Spring’s bounty includes Big Fusilli with a Quick Lamb Ragu and Gnocchi with Peas and Prosciutto.

But here’s the thing about the Pasta Friday idea: it’s not about the food. It’s about the fellowship. It’s a chance to build a community, to come together in good times and bad, to support each other and grow in friendship. The Pasta Friday Cookbook isn’t just about creating a great dinner. It’s about making a fuller life for you and your family.

Personally, I’m not sure a weekly pasta night is right for us. But maybe monthly. I do like the idea of getting together on a regular basis with friends and enjoying a big pot of pasta and companionship. At the very least, this has given me a lot to think about. I highly recommend The Pasta Friday Cookbook, both as a collection of crazy and delicious recipes and as a guideline for building a stronger community.

Galleys for The Pasta Friday Cookbook were provided by Andrews McMeel Publishing through NetGalley, with many thanks.

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LMK

Such a great concept

Reviewed in the United States on 20 January 2022

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I rarely write reviews on anything, but this book inspired me to form a pasta club of my own. Much smaller scale of course (I live in an apartment) but the same concept--serving a relatively easy, large batch meal in order to encourage getting together more often. The book has great ideas for making this as easy and as fun as possible, as well as great recipes. This isn't a fancy schmancy book that will suggest making your own fresh pasta for 30 people -- very practical and fun (e.g., use dried pasta, paper plates, etc.). My only (very very minor) tweak would be that I wish there was a picture of each recipe on each recipe page. I recommend this book to everyone I know, as I think the concept is fantastic.

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WriteStuff31

Beautiful book, delicious recipes!

Reviewed in the United States on 17 September 2019

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I'm not the only pasta lover in my house who's excited by the arrival of our Pasta Friday cookbook! I strongly urge everyone to grab a copy of this book. Ms. Arevalo is an amazing chef and writer. Her recipes, along with the concept of gathering every Friday with friends and family for pasta dinner, are nothing short of brilliant. I particularly love the advice she imparts from her own mistakes, her wine pairings, conversions and very down-to-earth, warm style of writing. The recipes are mouth-watering and I can't wait to make them all.

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Jenna

More than a cookbook! This book is a must have for your kitchen!

Reviewed in the United States on 19 September 2019

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This book is more than recipes on paper, it is more of a story and way of life where you can relate to the author. Allison writes of her own memories and traditions as well as sharing her expertise with each delicious recipe. She reminds us of our own family traditions and encourages us to create and continue traditions with our family and friends. I can’t wait to make these dishes and connect with my circle and beyond. There is no shortage of recipes as there is a pasta recipe for every week of the year with salads and wine pairings for each season. And the visuals on the pages are gorgeous, everything looks so delicious. My youngest teenage daughter was flipping through the pages and commented how good everything looked. Highly recommend for pasta, salad and wine lovers!!!

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