Here are over 100 easy-to-follow recipes chosen by an international group of culinary experts and enhanced by cooking tips, headnotes, a nutritional analysis of each recipe, an extensive glossary and a thorough index. Like The World's Finest Food, the recipes are illustrated with informative, scenic photographs and 115 full-color area maps. Pasta and grains have been staples of man's diet for more than 10,000 years and, today, the average American consumes almost twenty pounds of pasta each year. Some of the earliest recipes ever written were concerned with the preparation of these basic foods and this book culls the very best of them from Spain, Italy, Morocco, India, Thailand, China, Japan, Indonesia, Greece, Russia, Lebanon, Vietnam and the United States.