Each recipe is accompanied by pasta-shape recommendations and sauce variation suggestions.

Brief notes at the start of most recipes provide background and history of the sauces, as well as tasty descriptions - so you can select the recipe that perfectly suits your craving.

Week-after-week, year-after-year, you can cook from Pasta Sauces and still keep a record of your reactions to each recipe by using the handy check-off review boxes. This system allows you to carefully track and rate your most successful and favorite sauces.

We tried this sauce...and:

• __loved it
  
• __maybe we'll try it again
  
• __we'll use it for unwelcome guests
  
• __hated it
  

From healthy and light to hearty and scrumptious, a treasury of new family favorites are at your fingertips, including:

• Sweet Butter Sauce
  
• Great Pesto with variations
  
• Bolognese Meat Sauce
  
• Tuscan Chick Pea Sauce
  
• Fresh Tomato-Pepper Sauce
  
• Sausage and Eggplant Sauce
  
• Meatballs and Spaghetti
  
• Macaroni and Cheese
  
• Peppers and Anchovy Sauce
  
• Sicilian-Style Tomato Sauce
  
• Pasta Primavera
  

Charles Bellissino has been cooking and collecting pasta sauce recipes nearly all of his life. His recipes come from a long line of relatives from every region of Italy, as well as from friends and acquaintances living in Italian neighborhoods all over this country.