Pasta & Magic Oil Sauces, Mark Gowen
I'm not a chef, and I don't have a TV show, a restaurant, or my own brand of pasta sauces.
I'm a homecook, maybe a bit like you.
 
But I've also got over 50 years' experience of visiting, living and working in Italy, and of course eating pasta. And now I've decided to put all of that together and create a series of four pasta cookbooks.
 
The pasta cookbooks you've never been able to buy
The Pasta & Magic series of books have turned out to be the pasta recipe books I've never been able to buy myself - the classic dishes that everyone wants to cook side by side contemporary recipes, all curated in a unique way that makes getting inspiration for your own meals incredibly easy.
 
You've never thought about pasta like this before
The Pasta & Magic series of books is based on the idea that the universe contains only 4 different types of pasta sauce. Honestly. Every dish you could think of is built on either an Oil, Pesto, Dairy or Tomato sauce. 
And thinking of pasta recipes in terms of what type of sauce they are makes it much easier to find inspiration for what to cook, with whatever ingredients you have.
 
80 Inspirational recipes
You can buy the first of the Pasta & Magic series, Oil Sauces, right now, as an eBook, hardback or paperback book. The ebook and hardback contain an extra chapter on the history of pasta and Italian food.
 
Oil Sauces alone contains over 80 recipes. I've included many traditional regional Italian recipes, that you can cook easily at home, drawing inspiration from dozens of historical sources, from the pasta cooks of Medieval England and the Roman Empire.
 
Online recipe videos and more
All the main recipes in the Pasta & Magic series appear alongside QR codes linking them to the Pasta & Magic website, giving additional details and information like nutritional data for each recipe and links to retailers or food brands. Featured recipes also include recipe videos of me preparing the recipes in my own kitchen.
 
Anyone can cook like this
All the recipes you see in Pasta & Magic are real meals I've cooked for my own family. No professional chefs or stylists, just me in a domestic kitchen, photographing the pasta I've cooked, moments before eating it with my family. 
 
If I can cook like this, so can you.