Genuine Pizza: Better Pizza at Home

by Michael Schwartz, Wolfgang Puck (Foreword), Sidney Bensimon (Photographer)

Genuine Pizza is James Beard Award–winning chef Michael Schwartz’s vibrantly illustrated guidebook for creating unforgettable pies at home.

Foreword by Wolfgang Puck

Throughout his acclaimed career, chef Michael Schwartz has been celebrated for his skilled use of quality ingredients, and with his pizzas, this talent is on full display. This cookbook makes the pizza process approachable and fun, giving the reader the tools they need to make better pizza and then run with them.

First providing a clear and simple view of the fundamentals—with detailed step-by-step methods for making the best pizza doughs—Schwartz then empowers home cooks to mix and match ingredients, playing with different sauces, cheeses, meats, vegetables, and more, to build pies both classic and innovative. Pizza is just the beginning—it’s a jumping off point to colorful, delicious meals.

Includes color photographs by Sidney Bensimon

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction, Reference

240 pages, Hardcover

Published May 14, 2019

About the author

A pioneer in the natural foods industry, and a nutritional counselor and teacher of naturopathic programs, Michael Schwartz created the "Synergistically Complete ®" concept that has become an industry standard. The author of "The Universal Teachings", "The Art of Mental Healing" and his newest book "Health and Disease Symbology Handbook: A Mind Body Perspective", Michael is an illuminating and inspiring speaker."

Reviews

[Jill · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun to read through and imagine but tbh I think my “crappy” homestyle pizza with plain low moisture moz shredded cheese, pepperoni and olives on a 30 minute focaccia crust that I have memorized by heart is pretty dang good... the likelihood I will make these recipes is slim! The pictures are beautiful and the writing is good, though. there are some cool ideas. :-)

I do wish the recipes combined with each other to make a whole pizza on one or two pages. it’s edited so the dough is at the beginning, ideas in the middle, and anything extra they call for on toppings near the end. It just feels like a bit of a shuffle to get the whole picture of the pie. 😉

Humble Bundle purchase. ❤️

[Gary · Rating 1 out of 5]

I've read my share of pizza making books. Any half-way decent book points out you want to measure ingredients by weight, not by volume. This book does that too, but the recipe has volumes, not weights, for some ingredients. Pass.

[~Vixhen~ · Rating 4 out of 5]

After attempting make pizza at home multiple times, this book makes me feel hopeful. I'm definitely going to try the basic cheese pizza recipe. I like this book a lot. It has other recipes as well...the meatballs are going on my to do list.

[Charles T. Fincher · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very interesting recipes

If you want to make pizza and all the trimmings, this is a great book for you. Not only does it talk about all parts of pizza making but it also gives a host of other recipes for various Italian type recipes. Well worth the cost of the book.

[Leslie aka StoreyBook Reviews · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great cookbook and very versatile