Healthy pasta? Not an oxymoron, Bastianich siblings' cookbook promises
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By: Alison Bowen
Posted: 6:06 PM, Jun 23, 2015
You're thinking through your weeknight meals, and you'd like to incorporate at least a few that resemble healthy. But you'd also like an easy, flavorful pasta you know you can whip up quickly. Are these two things compatible?
A new cookbook by Joe Bastianich, co-owner of Batali & Bastianich Hospitality Group and Eataly, and Tanya Bastianich Manuali, who owns restaurants and has co-authored five previous books, promises that pasta can be healthy. More specifically, the book's title pledges recipes for "Healthy Pasta: The Sexy, Skinny, and Smart Way to Eat Your Favorite Food."
The cover trumpets 100 recipes delivering under 500 calories, spanning ziti (partnered with savoy cabbage and pancetta) to shells (featuring lentils and shrimp mixed with white wine, red pepper flakes, garlic and thyme).
Partly inspiring the book? The role pasta plays in the siblings' lives: Their mother is restaurateur, cooking teacher and author Lidia Bastianich.
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...for the all-natural, unprocessed, unfiltered FSM experience at our communion. 
The texture of course is the biggest difference - a little grainy, just a little. But once you get used to it, you appreciate the richer flavor and your digestive system (and blood sugar levels) will thank you!