This is not a cookbook; this is an entirely fresh and idiosyncratic look at the worlds most popular food. Architect George L. Legrande has compiled and profiled 92 different kinds of pasta, classifying them into types using the science of phylogeny (the study of relatedness among natural forms). Opening the book is a pasta family tree, revealing unexpected relationships between pasta shapes, their usage and common DNA. Each subsequent spread is devoted to a single pasta, and features a short text that explains the foods geographical origin, its process of manufacture as well as its etymology alongside suggestions for minute-perfect preparation. Next the pasta shape is rendered as both a mathematical equation and a line diagram that displays every distinctive scrunch, ridge and crimp with loving precision. Photographs by Stefano Graziani complement these meticulous renderings, showing the elegant contours of each pasta shape. Finally a gatefold features a Pasta Family Reunion diagram, reassembling the pasta types and grouping them by their mathematical and geometric properties.
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`A surreal vision of the varied - and beautiful - world of pasta'
--The Financial Times
'The Mathematician's cookbook of the year ... a kind of culinary sudoku' --Telegraph Magazine
'A refreshingly original book on food' --EasyVoyage.co.uk
`Fun, quirky and sure to become a cult food and design publication, this book offers an entirely fresh and idiosyncratic look at the world's most popular food - pasta ... This information, developed over hundreds of hours of research, is utterly unique - and beautiful.' --Dezeen.com
'Playful proof that immense variety and seeming complexity can be reduced to simple mathematical beginnings' --New Scientist
'A labour of love'
--Crafts Magazine
--The Financial Times
'The Mathematician's cookbook of the year ... a kind of culinary sudoku' --Telegraph Magazine
'A refreshingly original book on food' --EasyVoyage.co.uk
`Fun, quirky and sure to become a cult food and design publication, this book offers an entirely fresh and idiosyncratic look at the world's most popular food - pasta ... This information, developed over hundreds of hours of research, is utterly unique - and beautiful.' --Dezeen.com
'Playful proof that immense variety and seeming complexity can be reduced to simple mathematical beginnings' --New Scientist
'A labour of love'
--Crafts Magazine
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Format:Hardcover
A little repetitive but thorough and I appreciate thoroughness.
The book provides both verbal and mathematical descriptions of so many types of pasta it's incredible.
The equations also work when inputted into Mathematica.
The book provides both verbal and mathematical descriptions of so many types of pasta it's incredible.
The equations also work when inputted into Mathematica.
By Wan Faridah
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oh my god, it was fast and safe, the content was good and awsomley geeky, recommend for anyone with similar interest.
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By Marius
Format:Hardcover
I opened this book expecting to find a history of pasta and an explanation of the various types. What it actually does is something remarkably novel - it provides you with the mathematical equations required to construct each of 92 types of pasta, along with a very satisfying demonstration. It's a perfect present for my Godson who is very keen on maths, but I'm getting one for myself as well, because it's the perfect coffee table read; original, beautiful, intriguing and a completely new way of looking at the everyday.
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