In this volume of the How to Cook Master Series, the Cook’s Illustrated test kitchen set about careful testing of the best methods for preparing pasta sauces in an American home kitchen. We found that quick cooking tomatoes preserves the flavor in a sauce and that the type (and brand) of canned tomatoes is perhaps the most important. How to Make Pasta Sauces includes basic workhorse recipes for tomato, pesto, vegetable, meat, seafood and dairy sauces plus many innovative variations. We hope that by exploring the underlying techniques used to prepare different types of pasta sauces, you will feel skilled enough to improvise on your own. The How to Cook Master Series is a unique collection of beautifully hardbound, single topic cookbooks from the editors of Cook’s Illustrated, the publication legendary for perfecting a recipe through years of fanatical kitchen testing
