Spaghetti - by Magda Gargulakova (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

If there's one food in the world everyone knows and loves, it's spaghetti!

Twisted, slippery, saucy, and just a little bit untamable, spaghetti has a way of taking over dinner (and your shirt) that no other pasta can match. This illustrated pasta guide digs into five wildly different legends of where spaghetti actually came from, tours Italy's regional pasta shapes, and shows exactly how spaghetti goes from dough to dinner table.

Then it's into the kitchen for five real, easy recipes: garlic and oil, tomato sauce, carbonara, clam sauce, and butter and cheese, plus proper forking technique, doneness tips, and even a recipe for making spaghetti from scratch at home. This illustrated pasta guide is packed with delightfully weird trivia too, from a 3,776 meter Guinness World Record noodle to a physics term named after spaghetti. Bright comic style illustrations bring it all to life, making this a laugh out loud, genuinely useful guide for anyone who loves a big bowl of pasta.

• A Full-Course Pasta Education: Five competing origin myths, a regional pasta shape glossary, and a factory to table production tour, all told with humor and myth-busting flair.
• Five Real, Easy Family Recipes: Step by step instructions for garlic and oil, tomato sauce, carbonara, clam sauce, and butter and cheese, plus a from scratch dough recipe for making spaghetti at home.
• Trivia and Fun Facts for All Ages: Quiz worthy facts, from a 12,388 feet Guinness World Record noodle to the physics term "spaghettification," make this a natural fit for family game night.
• Hands-On Kitchen Skills: Teaches proper forking technique, doneness testing, and cooking tips kids can actually use at the stove.
• Bright, Comic-Style Illustrations & Tactile Cover: Bea Lozano's bold artwork and a textured, spaghetti-like cover finish make this an inviting, giftable read for reluctant and eager readers alike.

For more than 75 years, Albatros Media has been crafting original and innovative children's books that are both playful and educational, fostering curiosity and a love of learning in young minds. From novelty and board books to picture books and seasonal titles, Albatros Media creates high-quality books designed to delight, comfort, and inspire.

About the Author

Magda Gargulakova has a degree in Art History and is a co-founder and also curator of the OFF/FORMAT gallery in Brno, Czech Republic, which exhibits and promotes contemporary progressive art, mostly by young artists. She worked for a time in marketing, but her love affair with books has been a long one. For OFF/FORMAT, she has edited and published several art publications. Since 2019, she has added to this experience as an editor of literature for very young readers at Albatros Media, using her two daughters for quality control. She resides in the Czech Republic.

Bea Lozano was born in Salamanca, Spain and studied illustration at the Escola Massana in Barcelona. She participated in the Xavier Nogués seminar on experimental printing and the Meta-Mática workshop on desktop publishing and movable-type printing at L'Automàtica. Bea also creates short animations as part of the Cuantikstudio collective and works on other personal self-publishing projects. She lives and works in Salamanca.