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For the past 25 years in the food service industry as a professional chef. I have collected a repertoire of pizza and pasta recipes. I've gathered these recipes from many years working in small local bars, small pizza and pasta restaurants across this great country of ours. From the Traditional Chicago Deep Dish to the Pacific Northwest and its Smoked salmon pizza to the southwestern Mexican and California's Spinach and Grilled chicken pizza. I hope you will find these enjoyable in making your meals quick and easy. ... Read more

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1983 set of 10 cookbooks plus 6 Recipe Yearbooks, all by Bon Appetit ... Read more

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Bring the California Pizza Kitchen experience to your home with nearly 50 recipes and inspiring color photographs found in the California Pizza Kitchen Family Cookbook, which shows you how to make popular dishes from the restaurant known for its eclectic pizzas. Crowd-pleasing recipes that are easy to make and appeal to both adults and children include pizza like Jamaican Jerk Chicken and other favorites like Thai Crunch Salad. This book will show you how to make three kinds of pizza dough with step-by-step instructions, and it even presents ideas for create-your-own pizza parties. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (3)

Excellent Pizza Book
I have been making pizza using the thin crust recipe and the simple sauce recipe in this book and they have been outstanding.The key with any at home pizza is using a good quality pizza stone and an oven that can get high temps.I have an oven that goes to 550 and that combined with an 1 inch thick stone, this recipe works great with this setup.It is really a simple recipe and is ready in a couple of hours.The dough you can get very thin and is very flavorful.Overall, this book has lots of good pizza recipes that use a couple of different base crusts.I highly recommend this book if you want to start to make pizza at home that tastes like what you get at the restaurant.

If you don't want to give out your recipes - don't write a cookbook
I have yet to find a recipe from a Restaurant that is not sabotaged in some way. So, I really can't complain because I rather expected it. I was looking for a simple pizza recipe to get me started, pretty much knowing I'd be left on my own common sense for what is missing from this recipe. All I can say is, don't trust the measurements, use your common sense. Upon initial perusal I could see that the pizza sauce recipe had no liquid content. The sauce recipe was about 5 ounces short on tomato paste and another cup or two short on liquid (water or tomato sauce).The dough recipe was about 2 cups short of flour.But it ticks me off when restaurants (this was the only book I could find, after checking several others, that had a pizza recipe in it) make cookbooks when they really don't want you to cook, they want you to go to their restaurant. Besides some interesting ideas on dessert pizzas, you are best off just surfing the web than wasting your money on this book.

It's ok
I haven't tried all recipes yet. Just scan through and found out most of the recipes are simple and instructions are easy to follow

There are 4 basic sections for this book.
1/ Appertizer, salads, and panini sandwiches
2/ Specialties from menu, including chicken dishes and pizza
3/ Kids pizza party
4/ Dessert pizzas
There is not many recipes for pizza section which is not what I am looking for.However these are the pizzas you see they have at restaurant.
It seems the appertizer section is more interesting than the pizza section.Kid pizza party is ok.There is just a few for desert pizza.
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An eclectic edition of pizza and bread recipes for every occasion. Beautiful, full-color photos detail each recipe and show what the cooking effort produces. More than 100 recipes in all. ... Read more

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Pizzas and Italian Breads
I wrote that I had not recieved the book. My wife recieved the book and packed it in the bags for a trip to Mich.. Some thingtold me to ask her---yep she forgot all about it, and had left it in a side pocket in the bag.---My apoligy to all--- The book must have came in about 4 days after ordering. My best to all. jim edwards

Great introduction.
In its almost 50 parts, all written by experienced cooks and cook book writers, HP Books' "The Book of ... Cooking" series takes you to the cuisines of various regions of the U.S. and around the world; all in easy to follow, well-explained recipes.

This installment, the Book of Pizzas and Italian Breads, starts with a brief introduction into the history of pizzas, the necessary equipment, a glossary of ingredients and a step-by-step guide to pizza crusts, and then presents recipe suggestions ranging from traditional pizzas to Italian breads.Special chapters are dedicated to quick and easy pizzas, pizzas for entertaining, pizzas for kids, pizzas from around the world, unusually shaped pizzas and dessert pizzas.Classics such as pizza Margherita, quattro stagioni, marinara and napolitana, bread sticks, various calzones, focaccia, polenta bread, panettone, and four cheese, Hawaiian and salami pizzas,appear next to unique recipes such as choc-truffle pizza, French brie pizza, grape bread, sausage and apple pizza, and sour cream and caviar pizza.

From apple pie pizza to whole wheat pizza dough, this collection of recipes, while not all-encompassing, is a great introduction to the endless possibilities of baking food on a slab of dough, covered with cheese - and at a relative bargain price, to boot.Also recommended for fans of Italian cooking:This series' installments on antipasti, pasta and light pasta sauces.

Also recommended:
Around the World Cookbook
Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home: Fast and Easy Recipes for Any Day
Sundays at Moosewood Restaurant: Ethnic and Regional Recipes from the Cooks at the Legendary Restaurant (Cookery)
Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian: More Than 650 Meatless Recipes from Around the World
On Cooking: A Textbook of Culinary Fundamentals (4th Edition) Textbook only
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So weclome to THE PIZZA GOURMET- though first things to say is that isn't just a pizza book, Course you'll know this already if you watch Chef Carl Oshinsky- OK, not quite an Italian, but still a well-acknowledged pizza pontiff-beaming out in living color all across American on PBS, watch him making all kinds of exotic-but-simple-enough-to-make pizzas as well as a variety of pastas and other accompaniment. For this above all is a book for entertaining, for having pizza parties-small or large, buffet or formal ... Read more

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Annoying writing style
To be fair, I haven't tried any of the recipes in this book, although I have copied one for Italian Ice that looks good.But the book is going in the "to the used bookstore" pile because the writing style is just annoyingly juvenile. Chatty, breezy books are one thing, but this book just grates on me.Every other sentence starts with, "OK" or "Well, ..." I love books, and I have many books on pizza, but this is one I don't even want in my house. ... Read more

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Innovative recipes for dishes, such as Tomato Garden Pizza, Potato-Leek Pizzette, Black Bean Chili Calzone, Tri-Color Pepper Pizza, Garlic Pizza Chips, and Pizza Colada, are culled from international cuisines. Simultaneous. ... Read more

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Too complicated / "gourmet" for its own good...
Not everyone's a gourmet and nor do they want to spend the hour or so making pizza(s) that some of these recipes seem like they'll require.

Most of these seem to have pretty long ingredient lists and seems a bit over-complicated. Honestly, I prefer the simpler approach taken by Keller in Vegetarian Pizza Cookbook. Plus Keller seems to provide far more pizza crust options (including dessert pizzas, etc.).

This book just seems to be trying too hard. Seems to me that, while variety is certainly the spice of life, one shouldn't over-complicate pizza.

Good ideas
Lots of neat ideas for pizzas - they're more gourmet style than anything.Each recipe has a picture which is just wonderful - large, colorful.The recipes themselves don't get me all that excited.Some of them are things that you might have for dinner (like a salad or a chinese stir-fry) and the author put them onto a pizza crust. But there are some interesting ones like the spinach pizza (sauted spinach with garlic, raisins and pine nuts put onto a pizza crust with melted cheese) and some ofthe eggplant recipes are neat.The Athenian pizza is excellent - feta, red onion, mushroom, olives etc baked on the pizza crust.And there are some interesting ones that I'm looking forward to trying that use different pestos.Overall good cookbook with inventive ideas and very pretty presentation that you could easily serve to guests.

Elaborate but thought-provoking
The unbelievably beautiful photographs (taken by the writer himself) showed me uses for things I never would have dreamed of putting on a pizza--okra, eggs (sunny side up!), fruits, and a wide variety ofvegetables such as cauliflower. McNair is a bit of an ingredient-snob (heseems horrified by the idea that anyone would use anything but a tomatoripped from the vine moments ago to make a pizza).That said, the bookwill help you unleash your creativity before you stick that Boboli in theoven.A few really ambitious people might actually try to follow one ofthese recipes, which would be quite an adventure, and one with a deliciousconclusion.

Creative pizza, gorgeous presentation, delicious!!
This cookbook has an extensive collection of creative pizzas...all beautifully presented in color photos.I have tried several and all are delicious and fun.I took off one star because some take a long time tomake.Enjoy! ... Read more

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Fifty-five recipes that entice the creation of pizzas containing the freshestproduce, the best cheeses, and the best-quality olive oils that make homemadepizzas delicious and nutritious. ... Read more

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Don't hesitate buy this book!
My husband and I love pizza, and after a trip to New York and tasting the brick oven pizza, we had been looking to re-create that taste in our own kitchen.So we went to a williams sinoma and bought a pizza stone.While there we wanted to also pick up a pizza recipie book too. We could only find one about grilling pizza, and it was like 40$.Curling our nose up we decided we would look on amazon for a cook book about pizza. We tried the pizza stone, it really didn't work that great.So, I went on amazon looking for help with the pizza stone.I only found books on grilling pizza!I found this one and considering it was only 10$ and considering all the rave reviews, I said why not!We got the book a week ago and we have had pizza on the grill 4 times!It's totally awesome!It's better than brick oven pizza from new york!We haven't really stuck to any specific recipie in the book, except for the handmade dough recipie (which is awesome, use a fork to put the ingredients together) and the tomato sauce recipie (which is also awesome) Smoked sharp cheddar cheese is great on it too!And bacon!Goat cheese rocks!And real mozzerella! And fresh basil! There is a recipie for a seasoning blend, that is awesome!The whole book is just the S@*t!. We have been so proud of ourselves for doing this, and it's so fun and cool to do it together. I bet this would be great for kids too. If you read all the instructions a couple of times and do it, it turns out just like the pictures in the book.Get a cheep pizza peel!Target has one for like 10$ put some mineral oil on it, (It's sold as a laxative in the pharmacy) If you don't oil your wood pizza peel it warps and cracks.I like to use a rolling pin to roll out the dough, with the grits of course, on the pizza peel. That way you're less likely to get tears in the dough.I hope you get this book if you are thinking about it!It rocks! Good luck! liza

Great book!
This is a fantastic book. As we all know, the crust is the single most important part of the pizza, and these guys have it down. They're very specific in their methods of cooking, and have many creative ideas for unconventional pizza's. also once you get the basics down they encourage you to modify and enhance any of the recipes they have.

Dead on and creative to boot
I started making pizza on the grill after reading a small blurb in a local paper. For anyone that has ever attempted to make pizza at home (with less than stellar results) and used a BBQ (in any fashion) it is hard to get results that are anything less than fantastic. This book will get you to that level and more with it's creative topping ideas and alternative sauces that will exceed 99% of the commercially available delivery pizza out there. You owe it to yourself to learn this art and loose your local pizzeria's phone number. These days I keep a ball of homemade dough in the refrigerator ready to go at any time. It's that easy.

Great little book
This book is the only one I'm aware of that recommends indirect heat for grilling the second side of the pizza so as to let the cheese melt without burning the bottom of the pie.Great ideas and advice.My family absolutely loves grilled pizzas.Many nice photos in the book.Also recommend Grilled Pizzas and Piadinas.

Great recipes
I have yet to make any of these delicious recipes, but I have enjoyed reading it cover to cover. Lots of great pictures and the recipes are so unique. You will be an artist of grilled pizza once you read this wonderful cookbook. ... Read more

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"A fun cookbook for any audience." --Booklist

Classic recipes for deep-dish, stuffed, thin-crust, and vegetarian variations. ... Read more

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Definitely Chicago Style!
I haven't had a chance to make many of the recipes in the book, because I'm stuck on the Chicago style Stuffed Pizza! The biggest part of the book is techniques/tips for doing the sauces and crust, which is going to apply to any recipe for pizza you will try. There are also lots of websites around with additional tips, just google for 'chicago pizza tips' and you should find them. Everybody has their own variation, but this book gives you a base that will surprise your friends with its authenticity. You can also pickup restaurant quality deep dish pans here on Amazon, and save a bit of money with shipping. Great stuff!

Well represented merchandise.
The way in which the seller described the book was in exactly the same condition as when I received it.

Pizza Making
this book covers the chicago pizza from start to finish very complete and well written it is a treasure

The beset pizzo cokbook!
[[I have been making "homemade pizza"for many years, however I was looking for something different.The Great Chicago Style cookbook" has many different ideas, something for everyone.Give it a try, I am sure you will be pleased!

Ordered this a long time ago.
Thought I would make more Classic Italian Pizza than I do. This will give you all of the basics and more. ... Read more

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This beautifully designed cook book contains a mouth-watering variety of over 200 Italian and pasta-based recipes. The dishes include bright new suggestions using the freshest and most wholesome of ingredients, while others are innovative re-workings of traditional Italian dishes. All of these recipes are well illustrated with step-by-step photography to guide you through the preparation. ... Read more

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Beautiful and delicious
Unusual pizza doughs, and creative fillings. Honestly, your mouth will water instantly. And I just ate pizza! I especially like the excellent photos and the two green ribbon bookmarks. Rather classy. Highly recommended.

Great for pizza lovers.........
.....but to use this book regularly you must be rather adventurous!!! I've made several of the more "standard" pizza recipes in this cookbook: Pizza Margherita, Potato Onion and Rosemary Pizza, Pizza Marinara, Black Olive Pizza, and Marinated Zucchini Pizza, all of which were excellent. There are also numerous calzone recipes that look scrumptous that I have yet to try. However, be prepared to try some "pizzas" you may never have heard of: tuna and egg pizza, sausage and apple pizza, curried fruit and cream pizza, banana and ricotta pizza with ham, orange and Grand Marnier pizza among others!!! Let's just say I'm waiting for the right mood to strike me before I try any of the latter category.

Some lovely added components of the cookbook include recipes for a variety of different doughs and instructions on how to make calzones. If variety and adventure appeal to you in particular - go for this cookbook.

Pizza for Breakfast!
Who doesn't love pizza?But spend a few minutes with Lorenza De' Medici Stucchi's Pizza cookbook and you will be craving this all-time favorite for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.Beyond the traditional tomato and cheesepizza recipes this fabulous cook book contains simple instructions formaking from-scratch crust, hearty calzone recipes, and instructions fordesert pizzas.Many of the more unusual recipes, like the Eggpland andSmoked Trout Pizza or the Gorgonzola and Walnut Pizza would make awonderful first course for a special dinner.Uncork your favorite wine,this is pizza like you've never seen it before!

I ordered this book andpurchased a pizza stone as a birthday gift for my father... a gift idea Iplan to duplicate for many different occasions! ... Read more

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Great Pizza Recipes...in fact...Hundreds and hundreds of recipes to choose from!! Spicy Deep Dish Pizza to Garden Salad Pizza…This recipe eBook is like no other eBook that you will find. It offers the best recipes available on the internet and a very low price. And with 186 PAGES and hundreds and hundreds of recipes...you are sure to get a ton of great recipes that you will love in this eBook. This is a Pizza lover's delight!!! ... Read more

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How would you like to come home this evening to a dinner of Chinese Pepper Steak? Or how about Autumn Pork Chops, Jambalaya, or Fiesta Chicken? Maybe a Beef Casserole or Ham and Scalloped Potatoes would satisfy the taste buds.

Whatever your families tastes, you\'re sure to find a crock pot recipe inside 470 Crock Pot Recipesto help you make the perfect meal.

Here are a few more recipe that are included:
CROCKPOT BEEF STROGANOFF
CROCKPOT CHICKEN PARMIGIANA
ZUCCHINI CASSEROLE
YUMMY CHICKEN WINGS
WILD RICE CASSEROLE
WHITE CHILI WITH CHICKEN
VELVEETA SALSA DIP
VEGETABLES ITALIAN-STYLE
VEGETABLE SLOW COOKER
VEGETABLE CURRY
TACO CHILI
TRIPLE CHOCOLATE MESS
HOT 'N' SPICY PECANS
HOT CHICKEN SANDWICHES
CROCKPOT CHICKEN PIZZA

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The Cookbook for
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Inside the pages of Delicious Cajun Recipes, you will find delicious and traditional cajun recipes as well as a selection of unique variations like:

* CRAWFISH ETOUFFEE
* CRAWFISH PIE
* CRAB MEAT AU GRATIN
* SHRIMP CREOLE
* CATFISH COURTBOUILLON
* RED BEANS and RICE
* CREOLE CABBAGE ROLLS
* CREOLE GREEN BEANS
* COCONUT CANDIES YAMS
* STUFFED MERLITON
* SEAFOOD GUMBO
* STEAK ROUILLE
* CRAB CAKE
* MAGNOLIA BLUEPOINT CRAB TARTS
* OYSTER CHOWDER SOUP
* PEPPERY STUFFED CRAB
* CRAB MEAT REMICK
* BARBECUE SHRIMP
* DUCK SAUSAGE
* GRILLED REDFISH
* CRAB STUFFED EGGPLANT ROYAL
* CRAWFISH WITH SPICY LOBSTER SAUCE
* Shrimp and Tortellini Salad
* Chicken and Sausage Gumbo
* Blackened Fish
* Cajun Hot Buffalo Wings
* Down South Jambalaya (Chicken and Sausage)
* Uncle Steven's Bar-B-Q Ribs
* Mardi Gras Scampi
* Shrimp Creole
* Deep Fried Carrot Fritters
* Louisiana Pralines
* And Many More Great Recipes...

You don't have to go cajun county to enjoy cajun food.Just whip up any Mouth-Watering Cajun Recipe to spice up your next meal!

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If you’ve ever dreamed of making oven-fresh pizza for yourself and your family, Pillsbury Pizza Night: Top It, Stuff It, Twist It—The easy way to go with refrigerated dough makes homemade pizza possible! Each recipe calls for prepared Pillsbury dough, which means you waste no time, and you and your family can focus on the fun stuff like topping and fillings. Nearly 100 recipes in this lay-flat, wire-bound book include classic Italian pies, party favorites, unique pizzas with international flair, snacks, and even dessert pizzas to satisfy everyone’s tastes. ... Read more

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PIZZA EVERY NIGHT THE EASIEST WAY
9/10/2008

Pillsbury Pizza Night
Top it, Stuff it, Twist it
The Easy Way to go with
Refrigerated Dough





A review by Marty Martindale

This is a handy little cookbook for the busy worker with pizza lovers depending on them at the end of the day. It covers pizzas for family meals, party pizzas, what they call "Pizza in Disguise," and pizza as an appetizer, pizza as a dessert. The book pays special attention to the first-things-first,details for handling the dough, how to make the various crusts, topping tips and the importance of allowing, like roasts, the pizza to cool a few minutes for better flavor.

All recipes commence with the item:Refrigerated Classic Pizza Crust:

STUFFED-CRUST PIZZA:
Calls for string cheese, pizza sauce, pepperoni slices and shredded Italian cheese

CHICKEN AND BLACK BEAN TOSTIZZAS:
Cooked chicken, canned black beans, salsa, cilantro, cumin, green onions, bell pepper, Cheddar, sour cream and guacamole

CHICAGO DEEP-DISH SAUSAGE PIZZA:
Italian pork sausage, bell pepper, mushrooms, pizza sauce, shredded mozzarella, tomatoes, ripe olives and green onions

RUSTIC HAM AND SPINACH PIE:
Olive oil, garlic, frozen spinach, Swiss cheese and sliced, cooked ham

5-WAY CINCINNATI PIZZA:
Ground beef, barbecue sauce, shili powder, cumin, apple pie spice, red kidney beans, onion and Cheddar cheese

PHILLY CHEESE STEAK PIZZA:
Butter, bell pepper, onion, Cheddar, cooked roast beef from deli, tomatoes

SHRIMP AND FETA GREEK-STYLE PIZZA:
Uncooked shrimp, cornmeal, mozzarella cheese, olive oil, garlic, feta cheese, green onions rosemary and ripe olives

CHEESY BEAN AND CHICKEN PIZZA:
Mayonaise, lemon juice, green chiles, kidney beans, cooked chicken, Mexican cheese blend, cilantro

SPINACH PIEROGI PIZZA:
Frozen spinach, onion, butter, mashed potatoes, oil, garlic, mozzarella cheese, Cheddar cheese

CANADIAN BACON AND PINEAPPLE PIZZA:
Provolone cheese, Canadian bacon, pineapple chunks, red onion, bell pepper, Cheddar cheese

ORANGE-CHICKEN-CHIPOTLE PIZZA:
Olive oil, onion, chicken, orange marmalade, cumin, chipotle chiles in adobo, mandarin orange, Monterrey Jack cheese and Cheddar cheese

Cilantro, mojo crillo marinade, red onion, black beans, chicken strips, Monterrey Jack, mozzarella

CHICKEN CURRY PIZZA:
Oil, chicken, onions, bell pepper, garlic, coriander, cumin, gingerroot, turmeric, cayenne pepper, cinnamon, cloves, tomato, frozen peas, mozzarella

SHRIMP AND PANCETTA PIZZA:
Shrimp, olive oil, garlic, pancetta, Alfredo sauce, mozzarella sauce, tomato, Italian parsley

BREAKFAST CALZONES:
Eggs, milk, butter, mozzarella, pepperoni, Parmesan cheese

CHICKEN SALAD FOCACCIA SANDWICHES:
Olive oil, garlic, rosemary, cooked chicken, celery, mayonnaise, green onions. Tarragon, yellow mustard

RED BELL PEPPER AND OLIVE PIZZA STICKS:
Olive oil, bell pepper, ripe olives, rosemary, pasta sauce

MINI PIZZAS:
Basil pesto, tomatoes, shredded mozzarella

COUNTRY FRENCH HERB FLATBREAD:
Olive oil, herbes de Provence, tomatoes, goat cheese, eggs, thyme, cherry tomatoes

BRIE AND CRANBERRY PIZZAS:
Brie cheese, canned whole cranberry sauce, chopped pecans

CHOCOLATE-PEANUT BUTTER COOKIE PIZZA:
Cream cheese, peanut butter, sugar, milk, whipped topping, hot fudge topping, chopped peanuts

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The ultimate collection of classic pasta, pizza, antipasto, rosotto, meat, fish and vegetable dishes, and delicious desserts, with 500 photographs. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (3)

the best!!
This is my bible in the kitchen. The recipes are very well explained they are all followed by a picture. I highly recommend.

Fantastic Book
Great book!During the last year, I've cooked over a dozen dishes from this cookbook, and they've all turned out wonderful.The recipes are authentic, delicious, easy to follow, and usually quick to prepare and cook.

Simple and photogenic!
These delicious recipes are simple and assisted by lots of beautiful photos.Great bargain! ... Read more