Review by Booklist Review
Weinstein and Scarbrough, recipe ghostwriters to the stars as well as authors on their own the Ultimate cookbook series: The Ultimate Shrimp Book (2002), The Ultimate Muffin Book (2004), The Ultimate Peanut Butter Book (2005) give the basics and 90-plus recipes for American's best-loved meal: pizza. With individual consumption running around 46 slices yearly, the variety offered in this singular cookbook is bound to please different regions, ethnicities, and taste buds. All offer options for cooking (oven versus grill); crusts (eight choices, from classic to gluten free); plus initial suggestions for appropriate combinations. The authors divvy up the pizza offerings into classics, appetizers, salads (no, the greenery topping isn't cooked), international, modern, and deep-dish. With the usual recipes like spinach and mushroom and cheese lovers' deep-dish come a host of the startling, occasional mouthwatering, and frequently stupefying ones, including for watermelon, stir-fry, and Reuben pizza.--Jacobs, Barbara Copyright 2008 Booklist
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review
According to Weinstein and Scarbrough, authors of the Ultimate cookbook series, Americans eat more than 46 slices of takeout pizza per year. On a mission to enable pie lovers to make fresh, quality pizza at home, the duo has created 100 recipes ranging from classics like four cheese and sausage and pepper to more inventive concoctions such as one made with squash and chard and another with duck confit. A primer chapter includes easy-to-follow instructions for a variety of doughs, including semolina and gluten-free dough that can be mixed and matched with recipes throughout the book. An eight-step "Road Map for Pizza" is a simple and effective guide to pizza making for all level of cooks. Options for using prepared crusts, as well as those made on pizza stones, baking sheets or the grill, give the home cook a desirable flexibility with crust preparation. Worthy chapters on deep-dish and salad-topped pizzas round out the book. (Jan.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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