The Pizza Book: Everything There Is To Know About the World's Greatest Pie [Hardcover]

Evelyne Slomon (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 12, 1984

This young chef makes pizza making easy and fun. More than 200 easy-to-follow recipes. Supplementing the recipes is advice about ingredients, equipment and technique.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 276 pages
• Publisher: Crown (August 12, 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 081291113X
• ISBN-13: 978-0812911138
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 7.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #199,226 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #21 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Baking > Pizza

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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is the best of the best of pizza cookbooks!, November 11, 1997

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This review is from: The Pizza Book: Everything There Is To Know About the World's Greatest Pie (Hardcover)

This is still "the" comprehensive cookbook on pizza, even though published in 1984. The author had taught classes in classic French and Italian cuisine for several years, and then to match a demand for homemade pizza by students, developed a pizza workshop which evolved into the cookbook. Extensive pizza history and background, as well as advice on ingredients, equipment, and technique, and more than 200 recipes for all types of pizzas are provided. The recipes include classic Italian pizzas, French pizzas, folded pizzas, stuffed pizzas, rolled pizzas, New York-style pizzas, New England-style pizzas, Chicago-style pizzas, Tex-Mex pizzas, and California pizzas. The best regional pizzerias from New York, Boston, New Haven, and Chicago are identified, and their signature pizza recipes are also provided. This pizza cookbook will stir you to begin your own quest for the perfect pizza made at home!

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Good - Worthy of even the "Chicago Stamp of Approval", August 11, 2000

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This review is from: The Pizza Book: Everything There Is To Know About the World's Greatest Pie (Hardcover)

This book is only one of two books that I would recommend for making pizza at home (the other is "The Great Chicago Style Pizza Cookbook"). I'm a Chicagoan, relocated to NY state, and I like pizza! My apologies to the rest of the county, but Chicago is STILL THE PLACE for pizza. Ask any Chicagoan (ha ha).

This book has wonderful recipes. I cannot wait to try some of the author's very inventive and tasty suggestions. She has interested me in branching out from my stand-by Chicago styles to sample the early NY pizzas, traditional Italian pizzas, herbed breads, special sauces and spreads, and interesting pizza fillings and toppings.

Evelyne is obviously no weekend warrior-chef like most of us. She did not develop her skills in a vacuum, cooking alone in her kitchen like authors of other pizza books. She knows what she's talking about and does a great job of assembling her information. The book is well researched and gives equal time to many regional styles of pizza that were available throughout the country in 1984. As soon as my loan from the library expires for this book, I'll be buying it from Amazon.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the last word on pizza making for me, July 27, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: The Pizza Book: Everything There Is To Know About the World's Greatest Pie (Hardcover)

i first saw this book in the library years ago and checked it out so much i had to have a copy for myself. since then i have made most of the recipes in it, and loaned it to many friends to get in on the secret of my great pizza. i am sure you will love the recipes and just reading the book.