
It's time to sprinkle some cheese and slice a pie—February 9th is National Pizza Day!
Pizza originated in Italy, but its popularity quickly spread across the continents, and more than 5 billion pizzas are now sold worldwide every year. In 1905, Lombardi's became America’s first pizzeria in New York.
Americans eat approximately 46 slices of pizza a year, but rather than buying from a chain, make your own with a cookbook from our collection. Whether you love flatbread, deep dish, thin crust, or hand-tossed, these books are sure to have a recipe you will enjoy.
Pizza: history, recipes, stories, people, places, love
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Everyone loves pizza, right? Saver of parties, empty fridges and hangovers the world over – pizza has come to the rescue of the human race more times than is worth counting. So, if you can't imagine your world without dough, cheese and tomato, then this is the book for you.
All things pizza are here – from its history and family tree, to world famous pizzerias and even an exploration into the pizza variants we love to hate (hamburger crust pizza anyone?). The Pizza Pilgrims, Thom and James Elliot, have spent years researching the best pizza that the world has to offer, all while running their own legendary pizza joints across the UK.
Alongside pizza maps of their favourite global pizza cities (so you can conduct your very own pizza pilgrimage) the book is also packed with over 30 recipes to make sure you finally delete your local takeaway from speed dial #1. From an NY slice, to true Neapolitan pizza made in a frying pan, Pizza offers classic and new creations, including guest chefs' collabs, and the Pilgrims' very own Nutella pizza ring!
Oven fresh and packed with interviews, pizza facts, movie scenes, world records and even pizza tattoos, Pizza is illustrated with all manner of pie-based fun and written with a hearty dose of humour. The perfect companion for the pizza lover in your life. Fact.
The Pursuit of Pizza: Recipes from the World Pizza Champions
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The Pursuit of Pizza includes nearly 50 recipes from 40 World Pizza Champions and QR code video tutorials that teach you how to make pizza like the pros. Learn from 40 of the best pizza pizzaioli in the world! Includes nearly 50 world pizza champion recipes Read these easy-to-follow recipes to take your pizza game to the next level! QR code video tutorials Learn to hand stretch and push out dough for Neapolitan, Sicilian, Romana, and Grandma-style pizzas. Then, learn how to roll cracker-thin crusts properly, and pipe and finish pizzas like the pros. About the Authors From famed Pizza Champion Tony Gemignani to Pizza Legend John Arena, The Pursuit of Pizza is a collection of award-winning recipes from the world's top pizzaioli. Now, for the first time, it's bringing elite pizza-making to your home kitchen. You don't need to be a pro to make great pizza. The World Pizza Champions have worked hard for you, breaking down their award-winning recipes into manageable steps. Each recipe is accompanied by beautiful full-color photography and instructional video QR codes, creating the most advanced and all-encompassing pizza cookbook ever released. Prepare to be inspired by the extraordinary, the innovative, and the delicious- all wrapped up in the pages of what is not just a cookbook but a celebration of pizza at its finest, brought to you by the very best in the business!
The joy of pizza: everything you need to know
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Pizza is simple: dough, sauce, cheese, toppings. But inside these ordinary ingredients lies a world of extraordinary possibility. With The Joy of Pizza, you'll make the best pizza of your life."-- Four ingredients: dough, sauce, cheese, toppings. But these ordinary ingredients allow for an almost-infinite world of possibilities. Richer and Parla know there are as many "perfect" combinations and types of crusts and fillings are there are people who eat the finished product. From sourcing your raw materials to debate over hand-kneading and machine mixers, to choosing the shape of the pan and cutting the finished product (slices or squares?), they provide a Pizza Evaluation Rubric to help you develop the superior pizza you've been searching for.
Pizza night: deliciously doable recipes for pizza and salad
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Making great pizza isn't complicated. Whether you're using a kitchen oven, a grill, or an outdoor pizza oven, it all starts with th dough. In Pizza Night, you'll find four simple doughs--pan, thin-crust, Neapolitan-style, and gluten-free--and easy techniques for perfecting your crust. From there, you can crate a variety of delicous pizzas. Arranged seasonally, each chapter includes the pairing of pizzas with salads, and to end your meal on a sweet note, there are a handful of simple desserts to choose from.
Kitchen Workshop - Pizza: 25 Hands-on Cooking Lessons for Making Amazing Pizza at Home
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With help from Kitchen Workshop-Pizza you'll be a pizza expert in no time! This easy-to-navigate book is a complete curriculum for making your own pizza using a regular home oven. Level 1 contains lessons on how to make different crusts, including New York, Chicago, Neapolitan, whole grain, and gluten free. You'll also learn a variety of tomato sauces, from slow cooked, to chunky, to roasted. Top them off with the right cheese, be it shredded mozzarella, Pecorino, or vegan mozzarella. Level 2 introduces you to the Italian standards: Margherita, Marinara, Quattro Formaggio-there's even a calzone recipe! Put a twist on your pie with the creative innovations in Level 3: how about a Moroccan or shrimp pizza? And finally, design your own pie in Level 4, with lessons on sauces, proteins, vegetables, and accents. From dough to delicious, Kitchen Workshop-Pizza is sure to inspire both novice and expert home chefs in the timeless tradition of pizza making.
Pizza: grill it, bake it, love it!
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Pizza lovers, rejoice! Bestselling cookbook authors Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough are back with an exciting new collection of ninety classic, international, and modern recipes for everyone's favorite food.
Finally, here's a book that lets you have it both ways--on the grill and in the oven. Bake a pie tonight for that traditional pizza-parlor taste or grill one this weekend on the deck or patio, and you'll discover what home chefs across the country are realizing: the grill is a great way to get a hot pie on the table.
Bruce and Mark adapt their recipes so that you can use a homemade dough, a store-bought one, or even a prebaked crust. With recipes for three sauces and eight crusts, Pizza makes America's favorite food easier and more fun than ever.
From the well loved to the adventurous, Pizza is full of Bruce and Mark's foolproof recipes that are sure to please every palate. There's something for everyone: classic pies like the cheese-laden Pizza Margherita and the Four Seasons Pizza, international pies revamped for the American kitchen like the Armenian Lamejun Pizza and the Alsatian Tarte Flambé, light salad pies like the BLT Pizza, and modern twists on old favorites. Try a Philly Cheesesteak Pizza or a Pot Pie Pizza, modeled on those American comfort-food classics. Pizza also offers ten recipes for Chicago-style deep-dish pies and a host of fun appetizer pies, making pizza perfect for every occasion.
The Essential Wood-Fired Pizza Cookbook: 80+ Recipes and Techniques from My Wood-Fired Oven
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Take pizza night to the next level with this essential guide to wood-fired cooking from Anthony Tassinello, chef at Berkeley, California's famed Chez Panisse restaurant. "I have always had a passion for fire and wood ovens. Anthony's own love for cooking with fire is contagious and his knowledge about wood-fired pizza is all encompassing. This is an inspiring and well-written book from a teacher you can really trust!" - Alice Waters, author of The Art of Simple Food and owner of Chez Panisse Chef Anthony Tassinello has created the must-have cookbook for serving up homemade pizza with your wood-fired oven. From classics like Margherita Pizza to more elevated fare like Stinging Nettle and Chanterelle Mushroom Pizza, he walks you through the time-tested tradition of preparing-and savoring-the perfect pizza. • More than 85 recipes-Learn how to make basics like dough and sauce, popular pizzas like cheese and pepperoni, and unique flavor combos like artichoke and thyme, along with calzones, hand pies, focaccia, and beyond. • Get to know your oven-Find Anthony's tips and techniques for mastering your oven and taking advantage of everything wood-fired cooking has to offer. • Make it a pizza party-With a section on perfectly paired cocktails, refreshing side salads, and sample menus, you can create a night of food and fun your friends and family will never forget. Transform simple ingredients into mouthwatering meals with the Essential Wood-Fired Pizza Cookbook.
Pizza camp: recipes from Pizzeria Beddia
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Pizza Camp is the ultimate guide to achieving pizza nirvana at home, from the chef who is making what Bon Appetit magazine calls "the best pizza in America." Joe Beddia's pizza is old school--it's all about the dough, the sauce, and the cheese. And after perfecting his pie-making craft at Pizzeria Beddia in Philadelphia, he's offering his methods and recipes in a cookbook that's anything but old school. Beginning with D'OH, SAUCE, CHEESE, and BAKING basics, Beddia takes you through the pizza-making process, teaching the foundation for making perfectly crisp, satisfyingly chewy, dangerously addictive pies at home. With more than fifty iconic and new recipes, Pizza Camp delivers everything you'll need to make unforgettable and inventive pizza, stromboli, hoagies, and more, with plenty of vegetarian options (because even the most die-hard pizza lovers can't eat pizza every day). In this book you will find pizza combinations that have gained his pizzeria a cult following, alongside brand new recipes like: --Bintje Potato with Cream and Rosemary --Collard Greens with Bacon and Cream --Roasted Corn with Heirloom Cherry Tomato and Basil --Breakfast Pizza with Cream, Spinach, Bacon, and Eggs Designed by Walter Green, art director of Lucky Peach, and packed with drawings, neighborhood photos, and lots of humor, Pizza Camp is a novel approach to homemade pizza.
Craft Pizza: Homemade classic, Sicilian and sourdough pizza, calzone and focaccia
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Recreate the tastes of Italy with over 65 delizioso recipes for pizza, calzone, focaccia and more—buon appetito! Hailing from the sunny south of Italy, and quickly popularised around the world, pizza is undoubtedly a fast-food favourite. Now more popular than ever with the rise of 'craft' creations, its versatility of tastes, toppings and types of bread, means that everyone can share in a slice of the action, and Craft Pizza will show you how. Without the need for elaborate equipment, you'll be shown it's possible that—with just the most basic, fresh ingredients—you, too, can make luscious handmade pizzas, calzones and focaccias. If you're a fan of the classics you'll find recipes for a Margherita, Stromboli or Pizza Piccante but, if you fancy something a little different, why not put your hand to the Pulled Pork Calzone or the Truffled Breakfast Focaccia. Once you master the basics of the pizza doughs and sauces, you'll be amazed at how this popular dish is wonderfully easy to make, always tasty to eat and guaranteed to transport you to the vibrant streets of Italy—you'll want every night to be 'pizza night'!