PizzaExpress From Italy With Love: 100 Favourite Recipes to Make at Home

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Most of them don’t follow normal preparations, so it’s quite refreshing to read all the unusual combinations. Like his spinach-based “Popeye Pie”. On the downside, I would say the book is a little on the advanced side for beginners. All the doughs use a wild yeast starter, similar to sourdough, which is an extra hurdle to grow and manage if you are starting out. Sift the flour and salt into a large mixing bowl, make a well in the middle and pour in the yeast mixture and olive oil. This is the first book from Ken Forkish before he wrote his pizza book, The Elements Of Pizza. It’s one of the most comprehensive bread books of all time and goes through all types of yeasted, pre-fermented, or sourdoughs.

Rather than listing every pizza style known, it focuses on the important bits of dough – the flour, fermentation, different ovens, and tools. Pizza popularity has exploded in the last 10 years, and so too have the cookbooks. These 6 books are classic books which I feel all add something different.

This is a newer book, first published in 2020, but I thought it was a great addition to my collection. That being said, it’s a great book for its insights. As Falco now consults restaurants, this book would also be ideal for someone looking to start a business. Pros This book is definitely a classic due to the author Jim Lahey popularising an easy, no-fuss dough recipe. The famous recipe is essentially a no-knead dough, where the ingredients are mixed in a bowl and left to naturally bond and ferment overnight. I see the “Jim Lahey no-knead” method pop up all the time across internet forums and comments – I think people just love its simplicity.

It’s based around 3 doughs – puffy Naples style, thin and crunchy Romana, and pan pizza Al Taglio. Marc focuses on Italian recipes but with an American influence. There are the usual sections on flour, tomatoes, cheese, and equipment that you find in other pizza books. One of the most delicious dough-based recipes has to be pizza. And now Pizza Express has revealed the exact recipe of its much-loved Margherita pizza, so you can recreate that iconic taste without leaving your house.It all blends very well together and is an absolute pleasure to read and eyeball all the images and recipe ideas. Pros It has chapters on the history, all the different styles, the ingredients, methods, and equipment, all before going into the dough recipes and the actual pizza topping recipes themselves.