Description
Discover a fresh, seasonal approach to everyone’s favourite comfort food with Six Seasons of Pasta, the bestselling cookbook from acclaimed chef and author Joshua McFadden. This beautifully crafted book reimagines pasta through the lens of the year’s six distinct seasons, guiding you to match textures, flavours, and ingredients for unforgettable results.
McFadden combines deeply practical pasta-making techniques with inspired recipes that celebrate vegetables, herbs, and seasonal produce — from vibrant spring greens to rich winter root vegetables. With clear instructions, stunning photography, and a focus on balanced, thoughtful cooking, Six Seasons of Pasta makes mastering pasta both joyful and accessible for home cooks and pasta lovers alike.
Perfect for food enthusiasts seeking new culinary inspiration and anyone who wants to elevate their pasta dishes, this book blends artistry with technique to help you prepare pasta that tastes as remarkable as it looks.
Inside This Cookbook
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Innovative Seasonal Framework: Explore six unique seasons that organize recipes by peak flavour and produce availability.
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Step-by-Step Techniques: Learn essential methods for fresh and dried pasta dough, shapes, fillings, and sauces.
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Creative Recipes: Includes crowd-pleasing favourites and inventive seasonal creations — from light spring pastas to hearty autumn preparations.
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Tools & Tips: Practical guidance on equipment, ingredients, and pasta-making fundamentals.
Whether you’re a novice cook or a kitchen connoisseur, Six Seasons of Pasta inspires confidence and creativity in every dish — helping you bring out the best in pasta year-round.
Perfect For:
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Home cooks looking to elevate everyday meals
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Pasta lovers seeking fresh seasonal inspiration
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Gift buyers searching for a beautiful, practical cookbook
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Fans of modern, vegetable-forward cooking
Expertly written, beautifully photographed, and packed with flavour, Six Seasons of Pasta is more than a cookbook — it’s your guide to mastering pasta with creativity, confidence, and joy.
About the Authors
Joshua McFadden is the founder of Submarine Hospitality in Portland, Oregon. He owns and manages Ava Gene’s, Cicoria, Medjool, and Tusk restaurants. In between running the restaurants, he is bringing new life to Berny Farm, a historic fifty-acre farm in Springdale, Oregon, with the goal of creating an agricultural complex that will host collaborations between farming, food, and design. His first book, Six Seasons: A New Way with Vegetables, also written with Martha Holmberg, won a James Beard Award in 2018. Follow him on Instagram at @jj__mc.
Martha Holmberg is a food writer who has authored or co-authored nine cookbooks. Modern Sauces was a James Beard Award finalist. Six Seasons: A New Way with Vegetables, written with chef Joshua McFadden, won the James Beard Award, and Grains for Every Season, also with McFadden, was a James Beard Award finalist. Holmberg was the editor in chief of Fine Cooking magazine for a decade, the food editor of The Oregonian newspaper in Portland, Oregon, and the founder of MIX magazine. She studied cooking at La Varenne in Paris, where she worked for several years as a private chef. Holmberg lives in Spokane, Washington. Follow her on Instagram @marthaholmberg.
• Language: English
• Author(s): Joshua McFadden with Martha Holmberg
• 392 pages
• Published in 2025
About the Authors