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ted.com

28

Jul

2010

The Geometry of Pasta

By Maria Popova

Canestrini, canestri and what design minimalism has to do with the perfect sauce.

When you think pasta, you don’t immediately think design. But a new book out today, The Geometry of Pasta, is out to once and for all confirm every chef’s conviction: That food is art.

The unusual volume pairs London chef extraordinaire Jacob Kenedy with award-winning British graphic designer Caz Hildebrand, exploring the science, history and philosophy of Italy’s most iconic pasta dishes through more than 100 authentic recipes accompanied by stunning, artful black-and-white designs. And any book that comes with a trailer, a minimalist motion typography one at that, is a winner in our book.

In addition to the delicious aesthetic treat, The Geometry of Pasta promises to help you develop an intuitive skill for matching pasta and sauce to maximize taste and texture, a skill the authors — and pretty much all Italians — firmly believe is linked to the ability to choose the right shape of pasta for the sauce.

For a taste of the contents, sample some drool-inducing recipes and ogle some stylish pasta shapes on the book’s website. Then, grab yourself a copy of this wonderful intersection of the arts diguised as a cookbook and amp your kitchen’s hip factor definitively.

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    SharedLooks on July 27th, 2010 at 10:22 pm

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  43. The Geometry of Pasta :: ‘what design minimalism has to do with the perfect sauce’ http://bit.ly/aQtSjP via @brainpicker #food #design

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  45. The Geometry of Pasta
    By Maria Popova, Confirms every chef’s conviction: That food is art. http://bit.ly/atEepL

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    Skookum86 on August 1st, 2010 at 4:04 pm

  46. the geometry of pasta http://bit.ly/9SVtr2 (via @brainpicker) may have to buy this book, cappellini the best?

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    kberardinelli on August 1st, 2010 at 9:24 am

  47. “any book that comes with a minimalist motion typography trailer, is a winner in our book” Geometry of Pasta http://tinyurl.com/34j24gq

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    pboersma on August 1st, 2010 at 5:02 pm

  48. #Food! Kitchen Monkey – recipes / shopping: http://bit.ly/9T88tt (via @xconomy); Pasta meet sauce: http://bit.ly/ahHyM8 (via @brainpicker)

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    TrackerNews on August 4th, 2010 at 10:17 am

  49. The Geometry of Pasta – http://bit.ly/c7bfNm

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    Cosmopolitan_LV on August 7th, 2010 at 8:00 am

  50. Seems like an intereting book: The Geometry of Pasta. It explains the design story and sauce that goes with eac.. http://tinyurl.com/376w2cc

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    sillysampi on August 8th, 2010 at 2:49 am

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