In New Cookbook ‘Your Pasta Sucks,’ Comedian Matteo Is Serious About Pasta

If you’re a fan of Lane, you’ve likely seen him cook pasta on his YouTube channel, where he makes everything from pancakes to pasta carbonara for his million-plus subscribers on the platform. It was that experience of cooking on YouTube — and seeing viewers recreate his recipes — that made Lane think that he could actually write a cookbook. “It was very accidental when I started on YouTube, to be honest,” Lane says. “I started making the things I knew how to make, like carbonara, amatriciana, cacio e pepe, and just chatting while I would cook on camera. Then people started making my recipes. They were sending me pictures, and really letting me know that they were into it.”