With over 30 rolled, stuffed, and filled pasta shapes, and over 40 recipes for stuffings and sauces, this cookbook is the ultimate for all pasta lovers.

The Pasta Man is back, and this time it's doing BIG and BETTER. In Pasta Masterclass, Instagram sensation Mateo Zielonka reveals how you too can make his spectacular and delicious creations. With "how-to" sections guiding you through each shape, including recipes for its famous colorful pasta, step-by-step photos, and QR codes linking to videos about each pasta shape included in the book, it then offers over 40 delicious recipes in which to fill or coat your creations.

Illustrated with stunning photographs and videos, let yourself be guided by a ma and enjoy the meditative process of making beautiful pasta.

Interview with Mateo Zielonka, chef

In just 11 years, this complete self-taught chef has earned himself a nickname, ‘The Pasta Man’, and over 812,000 followers on his Instagram account. In London’s Soho district, ‘his’ restaurant 180 The Strand is always busy. To coincide with the release in France of his second book, Pasta Masterclass, we take a look back at this extraordinary chef’s meteoric rise and, beyond that, his passion for pasta…

How did you get into cooking? Were you already cooking as a child in your native Poland?

Not really, no. Even though I’ve always been fascinated by food, I didn’t cook much if at all. When I was 17 or 18, I started watching The Sopranos. More than America or the mafia stories in the background, I was captivated by all the meal scenes, in and out of restaurants. So much so that my brother gave me the recipe book from the series. But I was still living in Poland at the time. Most of the ingredients needed were not available back home… No, I had to go to England to take the plunge. When I was 22 or 23, I joined my best friend there for the holidays. After 2 days there, I was offered a job as a dishwasher. ‘What if I changed my life? At the time I was a personal assistant to businessmen and other influential people. I resigned and that’s where my adventures in the kitchen began: on the dishwashing side, 11 years ago now.

Going from dishwashing to pasta couldn’t have been done with a wave of a magic wand…

No, it didn’t. I took one job after another, in different establishments, learning the trade, year by year. Until, about 7 years ago, I was given the opportunity to make a fresh pasta dish. A first for me. And I loved it. Preparing a pasta, shaping it… The process is so incredible. Not to mention the taste! The experience left a deep impression on me. I started making them at home. Almost obsessively. I worked during the day, practised in the evening and posted. I created an Instagram account. I wanted to share my tribulations in the world of fresh pasta, before deciding that this would be my job, my daily life.

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Watch the full interview here