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Summary: The Master Pizza cookbook
Review: Peter Reinhart became my baking idol after baking from "The Bread Baker's Apprentice". I couldn't imagine that he could write a book that could top that one, but he did with "American Pie". Once you try grilling pizza you'll never go back to spending 1 hour preheating your baking stone. It is the best way to make a pizza. Don't let it intimate you...the dough want fall into the fire. I was able to achieve great results with a gas grill. Everything that I've tried was delicious and can't wait to try the rest of the recipes.
Rating:
Summary: The Master Pizza cookbook
Review: Peter Reinhart became my baking idol after baking from "The Bread Baker's Apprentice". I couldn't imagine that he could write a book that could top that one, but he did with "American Pie". Once you try grilling pizza you'll never go back to spending 1 hour preheating your baking stone. It is the best way to make a pizza. Don't let it intimate you...the dough want fall into the fire. I was able to achieve great results with a gas grill. Everything that I've tried was delicious and can't wait to try the rest of the recipes.
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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: Peter Reinhart, takes you on a journey around the world in search of the best pizza. His travels take you back to the roots of pizza in Italy, then back to the US and across America, the book concludes with recipes for the best of the best that you can replicate at home.
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Summary: A quest for pizza perfection
Review: Pizza. Short word full of memories. Peter Reinhart brings us along his culinary journey to find the perfect pizza. Travelling through Italy and the US he lets us sample the different types of pizza: Roman, Napoletana, New York style, etc. As a keen reader of his other works I know that this guy knows what he is talking about. It is hard not to dribble over the pages! The book instructs you on how to make the different types of pizza crusts, sauces and toppings, as well as how to get the best results out of your oven. Highly recommended for anyone that loves simple food made with love!
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Summary: All about taste
Review: Reinhart's quest for the perfect pizza has resulted in the holy grail of pizza books. Reading it will give you an understanding of what makes a good pizza good as well as how you can make excellent pizza at home. Reinhart has the ability to describe what dough is supposed to look and feel like at its various stages of development; he helps you develop a sense of what's happening. I've made all of the doughs he describes--except the sourdough--and they all taste good. The descriptions of what to expect from each dough gives various reasons for why you might make one over the other. Eventually, Reinhart, says you will find a particular kind of dough that you focus on. The book itself is beautiful, ragged edged pages and excellent typography. There really isn't another book like it. It is what all good baking books wish they could be: A combination of clear instruction, insight, knowledge and explanation that results in food that tastes good.
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Summary: Anyone who likes good food will love this book
Review: This is a great book about the author's search for pizza, something with which we can all identify! On the way you will learn some facts about pizza -- for instance, that it was not invented in Chicago after WWII (as I thought), and that it has ancient and modern Italian associations. And as you share the author's journey, you will think about the emotional attachments to your own past food experiences, and think about how those experiences may bias your taste and thoughts about what good food is.
I did sense just the teeniest bit of... how to say it... elitism? inherent in the author's perspective on his quest for pizza. The world the reader joins is not one of working class food, but of high cuisine, with the attitudes and and the social connections that go with it. There may be just a bit of flaunting of this sensibility throughout. I'm not quite sure that I've sorted out whether this is real or imagined on my part, or if there is any way for the author to have avoided it given his background; but the book is still great and very enjoyable.
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