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Published by Alfred A. Knopf

Copyright 2015 by Tanya Bastianich Manuali and Restaurant Man LLC

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bastianich, Joseph, author.
Healthy pasta : the sexy, skinny, and smart way to eat your favorite food / by Joseph Bastianich and Tanya Bastianich Manuali.First edition.
pages cm
ISBN 978-0-385-35224-6 (hardcover)ISBN 978-0-385-35225-3 (eBook)
1. Cooking (Pasta) 2. Cooking, Italian. I. Manuali, Tanya Bastianich, author. II. Title.
TX809.M17B376 2015 641.822dc23 2014025460

Cover photograph by Steve Giralt
Cover design by Kelly Blair

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This book is dedicated to our Nonna Erminia, who cooked many plates of pasta for us, all the while watching us while our mother was busy at work. No one can beat her at growing a bountiful garden or quickly throwing a house slipper to hit you with if youre misbehaving. She is the root of our family, and her wisdom and love are endless.

Thank you, Nonni.

Contents

Introduction

Joe

Its no secret that Lidia Bastianich, the fairy godmother of pasta, is our mother. Lunch was never a simple sandwich with deli meat, and dinner could never be just one plate on the place setting. There was always a first course of pasta or soup and then a main course with salad, loads of vegetables, and usually fish, but sometimes meat. Growing up in her traditional Italian household was mostly a blessing, although sometimes the constant push to finish everything on the plate led to a bit of overeating. The upside of course was all the delicious food, having her feed armies of friends, and the fabulous kitchen aromas that always greeted us upon our returning home.

Tanya

Mom always wanted us to get an American jobbecome a doctor or lawyer or something similar. The restaurant business, with its long hours and low profit margins, was the business of immigrants. So we both did something different for a while. Joe worked on Wall Street and I went into teaching, but the restaurant industry gets under your skin. Once you have experienced the nightly adrenaline of a restaurant pulsating with customers and the pressure of having to provide great service and a great experience for those customers, and then you get to fall back at the end of the night with a sigh of relief, it is very difficult to go back to any other kind of life.

The business of running restaurants in New York City and across the country, producing food shows for television, and writing cookbooks does not keep us far from fabulous food. Both of our daily routines vary from tasting new menu items to testing and tasting the dishes for a new cookbook or snacking on the spoils of a TV segment. All of it adds up to extra food and extra eating. It is difficult to control and most of the time its a professional necessity, so we literally cant control it.

Joe

But I got to the point where something had to change. I made a conscious effort to work out. Equally important, I realized I had to modify my eating habits. Ironically enough, though, it was my love of pasta that played a major role in helping me attain my fitness goals. I began to look at foodespecially pastaas fuel for my athletic ambitions. What began as a 10K run eventually became a marathon. Marathons became triathlons, and in 2011, I had the privilege of competing in the Kona IRONMAN world triathlon championshipsand it was my daily habit of eating healthy pasta dishes that helped me get there. Once running became an integral part of my daily life, I had to find a way to make the foods I loved to eat fit my new active lifestyle, and pasta was numero uno on the list.

Change isnt always easy. But what we both learned was that great food experiences can also be healthy. In many ways, delicious food is even more delicious when its healthy. Pasta in particular, an Italian favorite and something we could not live without, can most definitely be healthy. As a result, weve been able to eat it more regularly and enjoy a greater variety. Pasta is almost an obsession with our family (as it is with many families, whether Italian or not). So once we began developing healthier pasta recipesand learned many simple tricks to make favorite recipes healthierour obsession grew. And eating pasta became more fun because we could do it without any guilt.

Tanya

Dont misunderstand the purpose of this book. Eating pasta seven days a weekand eating large portionswill never allow you to have a fully balanced diet or to lose weight. This book is not meant to be a fad diet or any miracle cure for weight problems. We did not set out to write Lose 200 Pounds in Two Weeks by Eating Pasta! We believe this book is a lot better than any fad diet because its effects are meant to be long lasting. It is meant to be a way to improve your eating, your health, and your life over the long haul. We know this can be done if you use the right ingredients and the right kinds of pasta, limit your portion sizes, and use many of the tricks of the tradetechniques that are easy and that we know will work because weve learned them over our two lifetimes spent around food.

Pasta

has been saddled with a bad rap for far too long. The low-carb/no-carb diet craze ultimately instilled in many of us a belief that partaking of our beloved lasagna and spaghetti is a surefire path to a fat physique and a depressing result on our next visit to the doctorand this just isnt true! Eating pasta can be beneficial to our health. It is also satisfying, economical, and should be a staple in every kitchen. Deprivation in any form almost guarantees failure. Instead of giving pasta up, we spent a lot of time finding other answerssmaller portions, for example. Another idea is to prepare your pasta simply with just a few healthy ingredientsvegetables, lean meats, and fish, dressed with olive oil.

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