Pizza: More than 60 Recipes for Delicious Homemade Pizza

by Diane Morgan, Tony Gemignani, Scott E. Peterson (Photographer)

Team five-time world pizza-throwing champion Tony Gemignani with acclaimed cookbook author Diane Morgan and the result is a cookbook that will turn any home kitchen into the best pizzeria in town. There are over 60 selections on the menu, including the thick, rounded-edge crust of classic Neapolitan pizza Margherita, the thin crust New York style Italian Sausage and Three Pepper Pizza, and the stick-to-your-ribs, deep-dish kind, smothered in spinach and mozzarella. There are also plenty of new-fangled layered with Thai curry flavored chicken or pineapple; cooked on the grill; even quick and easy versions using storebought crust. Aficionados will find six pizza dough recipes ready to suit anyone's crust preferences. Tips for proper use of such related gear as peels, stones, tiles, pans, grills, and ovens make this a complete pizza package. And with step-by-step dough tossing instructions from Tony himself, it's When it comes to pizza Pizza delivers.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction, Food

168 pages, Paperback

First published July 28, 2005

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Reviews

[Pam · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you are a novice pizza baker, this book may be for you. Basically it is divided by the style of crust and then recipes for the crust and toppings are provided. This results in a lot of repetition as basic cheese, tomatoes, and basil instructions are repeated multiple times with little variation. Each recipe takes a full page, two if a photo of it is included, when the variations are often very simple and do not require a complete repetition of the technique. Some unique varieties are included but most as simple variations on common place ingredients like cheese, tomatoes, and salami. If like me you are looking for inspiration and new ideas, borrow this book from the library.

[Jenny · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book delves into different ways to make pizza at home. In each chapter there is a unique pizza dough and pizza sauce for the type of pizza being highlighted. The book explores Neapolitan-style pizza, New York-style pizza, Chicago-style deep dish pizza, California-style pizza, Grilled Pizza, "Kid friendly" pizza (I did not the recipes in this chapter to be especially kid friendly, but Gavin and I enjoyed them), and Dessert Pizza.

We enjoy making homemade pizza. My brother & SIL lent us this book of theirs, since they know we make pizza so often. I made 36 of the recipes in this book. Twenty three were good, 13 were so-so, and we did not discover a bad recipe at all. Several of the recipes I have referred to more than once, especially the NY and West Coast Pizza Sauces, which are easy to make and nice to have on-hand for just our regular pizza nights. The pizza dough recipes are also very good if I want to take the time to make my own dough (instead of buying it from the local pizza place at 4pm the night of dinner). This is a book I would definitely want to keep in my cookbook resources.

[Luke · Rating 5 out of 5]

pizza.

[Linda · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some interesting recipes for dessert pizza

[Mckinley · Rating 2 out of 5]

Fairly standard recipes for pizza.