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Everyone loves pizza, right? Saver of parties, empty fridges and hangovers the world over – pizza has come to the rescue of the human race more times than is worth counting. So, if you can’t imagine your world without dough, cheese and tomato, then this is the book for you.

All things pizza are here – from its history and family tree, to world famous pizzerias and even an exploration into the pizza variants we love to hate (hamburger crust pizza anyone?). The Pizza Pilgrims, Thom and James Elliot, have spent years researching the best pizza that the world has to offer, and producing their own pizzas across 16 restaurants in the UK (and counting).

Alongside pizza maps of their favourite global pizza cities (so you can conduct your very own pizza pilgrimage) the book is also packed with over 30 recipes to make sure you finally delete your local takeaway from speed dial #1. From an NY slice, to true Neapolitan pizza made in a frying pan, Pizza offers classic and new creations, including guest chefs' signature takes, and the Pilgrims' very own Nutella pizza ring!

Oven fresh and packed with interviews, pizza facts, movie scenes, world records and even pizza tattoos, Pizza is illustrated with all manner of pie-based fun and written with a hearty dose of humour. The perfect companion for the pizza lover in your life. Fact.

From the Publisher

Ever since we embarked on our ‘Pizza Pilgrimage’ in October 2011 we have wanted to write a book about pizza. In all the 8 years (and counting) that have passed since (of which we have spent every waking minute thinking about pizza), this feeling has only got stronger.

‘We all know someone who LOVES pizza – and we mean really loves it.’

'In crust we trust'

About the Authors

Brothers Thom and James Elliot ditched their jobs in 2012 to go on a life-changing pilgrimage to Naples, the home of pizza, to learn how it’s done from the source. Back in the UK, they set up a market stall in Soho selling pizza from the back of their trusty Ape van. Pizza Pilgrims now run 16 pizzerias (and counting) in London and the southeast of the UK.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Quadrille (November 10, 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1787135152
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1787135154
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.63 x 1.25 x 10 inches
Reviewer: hkdkat
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: This was a hit!
Review: The pizza aficionado in my life truly enjoyed getting it as a gift. I even put it on a pizza box for the delivery!

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Fun to read and to cook from
Review: My son gave me this book for Christmas and I loved reading the whole thing. The brothers and quirky, fun & informativeWe've tried 4 pizza recipes and 1 dipping sauce recipe so far. All were delicious.The recipes are by weight, so you either need a scale or search online for approximate US measurements.

Reviewer: Noneya
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A cookbook that want to be a coffee table book
Review: From faux pizza box cover to cover, this book is fun to flip thru. The stories are well composed and the pictures vibrant. The recipes are legit. If this book could get a One Bite score, it would be an 8.8.

Reviewer: Parker
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A book about people marketing themselves.
Review: Another of pictures of people. Tid bits of information here and there. I am not interested in pictures of people. I expected a Pizza cookbook, not a history book of people and pizza making recipies.

Reviewer: Jerrilyn Moore
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A really cool book dealing with just pizza.
Review: This was for my granddaughter who is a culinary arts student. She loved the book and thought the cover was so smart why didn’t someone think of it sooner. It covers every pizza under the sun.

Reviewer: Anthony M.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Part History Book, Part Travel Guide, Part Cookbook. 100% greatness!
Review: This is a really fun book, especially if you like pizza. It’s a great book on pizza authority, especially in the United States. I’m from Chicago and they pretty much cover all our great hits.

Reviewer: Carol Milligan
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Pizza history very interesting!
Review: Loved reading all about pizza! Thought I already everything but learned lots. Am waiting for my “00” flour so I can make dough ala the Pizza Pilgrims!

Reviewer: D. Van Epps
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Is the Dough for this Book Worth It?
Review: Owning several hundred cookbooks, and around a dozen exclusively devoted to pizza, it’s appearing to me that there’s a trend in chefs’ having opened some restaurants needing to write a cookbook, or rather a travelogue, on how the chefs’ journeys. In some cases, scores of photos of basil, tomatoes, dough, restaurants, crusts, cars, people met along the way, and in this case, innumerable photos of the authors eating pizza, appear mandatory. Of the 268 pages in this book, the first actual recipe doesn’t appear until page 100. They continue for 53 pages, when we dive into pizza box art, other things you can eat with pizza, and a variety of cities’ pizza restaurants. But wait! There’s more! On page 259 there’s a Chicago deep dish recipe. Apparently there are many pizza enthusiasts among us interested in “how we got to be us” books, replete with photos and stories of the journey. All well and good: this is your book. For those of us with a bit of pizza background, including having on hand Tony Gemignani’s “Pizza Bible,” there’s really nothing new here, except a lovely tribute to Tony, and some curious dough variations, for example, the Nutella Ring. I hand it to the authors for their sense of humor and wish to memorialize their journey in sharing so many pictures of their friends and themselves making and eating pizza, but we could have used far more substance and far less extraneous items (which is the point of a Neapolitan pizza: less is better, is it not)? One more thing. If the authors are individually making hundreds and thousands of pizzas a day among their restaurants by hand without mixers as outlined on page 100, I do give them a bronze star for the amazing labor that goes into that.

Reviewer: Brando
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: A fun little read filled with some decent recipes (mainly for different topping combinations), interviews and history.Recipes make up only about half the book, if that. I've followed the recipe for pizza dough a couple times and it produces good results

Reviewer: JD
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Great for inspiration, some great recipes, pictures are superb…. Historical details a great read….. enjoyable read…definitely one for the collection….

Reviewer: Fernando Jimenez
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: A ver, si esperas aprender algo interesante no lo compres porque no tiene ningún tipo de información importante sobre la pizza, es más bien un libro que te enseña a donde han llegado ellos y alguna receta de su pizzería. Pero no te enseñan nada sobre harinas, levaduras... Nada de eso, para eso teneis el Pizza Bible que es de lo mejorcito.

Reviewer: Tinti
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Super nice bokl thede guys arw great

Reviewer: Felix Krüger
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Ich finde das Buch ist schön gestaltet, sehr persönlich und informativ. Ich hätte mich nur über ein paar mehr Rezepte in dem Buch gefreut. Aber auch die verschiedenen Interviews mit legendären Figuren aus der Pizza Szene haben einen hohen Unterhaltungswert.