I absolutely love this cookbook! (revised edition from 2005) My big excitement is finding recipes for so many different types of grains! In my quest to learn more about various grains, I stopped in book stores, health food stores, etc. and found nothing, but this book is jam packed with over 100 pasta recipes in addition to several "regular" types of pasta. It has some recipes that include such ingredients as Spelt, amaranth, quinoa, kamut, corn, oat, buckwheat, garbanzo, rice, soy, etc., and various herb, vegetable and fruit pastas. (I'll be able to grind the grains to make my own flour with my Vitamix!) There are hints for finding ingredients, making, cooking and serving pasta. In addition to that, each and every recipe has its own specific tips and serving suggestions and lists ingredient amounts needed for both hand crank and extruder method versions. Each also lists the calories, grams of protein, carbs, fat and sodium per 1 cup serving. There are also recipes for sauces, topping and fillings.The only criticism I have for this book is that its missing the grams of fiber quantities per serving (would have been nice to know, but also useful to help calculate points for my weight watcher's diet) and it didn't have info on drying or freezing tips for pasta (none of the other pasta books I found did either) which would have been nice. I can't fault the book for these two details as it has far more info than the other pasta books I found. Plus, the cost of this book is like half the price of the others, making it a great value. I highly recommend this book with great enthusiasm and thank the author for making it!