This is not just a cookbook full of pasta dishes. It includes multiple recipes for different fresh pastas you can make from scratch. In addition to the average flour and egg basic recipe, there's also cornmeal pasta (with kernels of corn!), broccoli pasta, mushroom-leek pasta and so on.

The rest of the book covers an extremely wide variety of different recipes with pasta as the main stay. Dried pasta, refrigerated filled pastas and wonton skins make it clear that you don't have to do the full fresh pasta process, unless you want to.

The recipes are laid out in an uncrowded, easy to follow format. The pictures don't distract from the recipes and nutrition information is included at the end of each recipe.

I expected to roll my eyes at this book and think "another typical white bread betty crocker book" but I've been extremely impressed with this book, regardless of it being a Betty Crocker creation or not.