The Essential Wood Fired Pizza Cookbook: Recipes and Techniques from My Wood Fired Oven

I just love this cookbook. I have always believed the purpose of a cookbook was to make one hungry. To make one excited to try a certain number of recipes. A great cookbook contains many of those thrilling recipes. This book fits the bill. It is terrifically inspiring, and not just for pizza. Woodfired ovens can be used for so many other thing... Just try the pita bread recipe here and you will understand. Make the most of your woodfired oven with this book.

Another excellent book no issues with the seller or product

Super book, excellent recipes well explained that really shows how you can use your wood fired oven to cook everything from pizza to dessert. Love it.

This book includes many different recipes and gives a good introduction to making this style of pizza. I received this book at a discount for a honest review. I have been interested in pizzas made in wood-fired ovens and book helped me learn and understand a lot of the basics involved. It also does a good job at giving a good idea of what work and preparation is required before actually building and setting up your own oven. Different styles of ovens are talked about, information about sourcing the right type of wood and how to fire up the oven, safety tips, and essential tools are all gone over. There are a lot of recipes included and I think that's the best part of the book. It gives you recipes for different dough including basic types, gluten free, wheat dough, and more so you can build many styles of pizza. Over 10 different types of sauces are also in this book and the few I've tried so far were very good. This gives you wonderful variety and flexibility in coming up with original and adventurous creations of your own. There are four chapters devoted to different categories of pizza: Meat pizzas, Poultry and Seafood pizzas, Vegetable pizzas, Calzones and sweet hand pies. There is even a chapter for things outside of pizza but associated or paired with it. This includes recipes for ricotta cheese, crepes, roasted vegetables, salads, and even more. The recipes were concise and easy to follow with preparation times listed along with the ingredients and instructions. There were many pizza recipes I had never heard of or even thought of, they helped spark my imagination and expand my view of pizza and different ingredients that could be used. The menu ideas are also very nice and well thought out for the occasions. I do wish that more color pictures of the different processes and steps were included to help clarify and guide things even more, but the book as it is certainly does an adequate job. The paper the book is printed on is thick, durable, and easy to turn. I would definitely recommend this book to adventurous pizza lovers looking for ideas and inspiration.

Excellent book with good recipes. Not for Italian pizza purists, but still valuable to read.