The California Pizza Kitchen Cookbook

The California Pizza Kitchen Cookbook

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The California Pizza Kitchen Cookbook BBQ Chicken Pizza, Mixed Grill Vegetarian Pizza, Tandoori Chicken Pizza, Thai Chicken Pizza. These are just a few of the delicious pizzas, baked fresh in wood-burning ovens, that have helped to make California Pizza Kitchen into one of Americas hottest and most successful restaurant chains. Founders Larry Flax and Rick Rosenfield "put the world on a pizza" and the results are fantastic. Now, for the first time, here are the recipes that have made CPK restaurants so popular, with step-by-step directions to make pizza cooking easy and fun, even for beginners. In addition to the pizzas and calzones, Rick and Larry include recipes for creative pastas, salads, soups and appetizers, not to mention the tempting dessert pizzas. Whether CPK is already your favorite place to dine with family and friends or youre a creative cook with a taste for bold, fun, international flavors, The California Pizza Kitchen Cookbook is the cookbook for you.
Rate Points :4.0
Binding :Hardcover
Label :Wiley
Manufacturer :Wiley
ProductGroup :Book
Studio :Wiley
Publisher :Wiley
UPC :785555033573
EAN :9780028609881
Price :$22.00USD
Lowest Price :$9.73USD
Customer Reviewsnot worth the money at all
Rating Point :1 Helpful Point :0
this book is way over priced and not even close to what I was told it would be. Its JUNK

Be prepared for a bit of complexity
Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :1
This is a wonderful cookbook and REALLY does tell you how to make the CPK pizzas true to ones we enjoy at CPK.
You should be aware of a few things:
1) Buy a Pizza Stone, it makes the pizzas cook better
2) Be prepared for a bit of work. Making the dough the way they say takes longer than a day, since you have to let the dough sit, rise, punch it down, let it rise and so on.
3) The sauces and ingredients are accurate, but, wow, some of them arent so easy to make. I love the Tandoori Chicken Pizza, but between making that and my wifes Garlic Shrimp Pizza, it took me 4 hours!

Is the payoff worth the effort? Well, seeing that a Pizza at CPK costs, what, around 12 bucks, its cheaper to go there and get it. However, if you truly want to know how to make Pizzas the CPK way, this is your book!

Looks Cute, but Pizza Dough is way too soft and soggy...
Rating Point :1 Helpful Point :0
The California Pizza Kitchen Cookbook book looks cute and promising enough, but the bread flour recommended in the book for pizza dough does not have high enough gluten. Without using high-gluten flour (OR making it with vital wheat gluten), resulting crust is too soft and soggy, not crispy at all. Some people like it like this, but cant make the specified 9" pizzas without the dough coming apart and then having to patch it its just not elastic enough. The dough is actually not a dough, but more like a very sticky batter which sticks to the bottom of the KitchenAid stand mixer and therefore doesnt get much mixing because of this and because theres so little of it. Very sticky to handle and, again, theres just not enough batter-dough made from the recipe to make what they claim, so be ready to do some recipe calculations.

The instructions for making the dough are poorly written, resulting in vagueness, misunderstandings, and lots of rereading to try to figure out what they want you to do.

Ill stick with THE ULTIMATE PIZZA MANUAL, which gives me real incredible pizza.

THE ULTIMATE PIZZA MANUAL: MAKE PIZZA LIKE THE PROS...USED TO!

I was a bit dissappointed
Rating Point :3 Helpful Point :1
I was a bit dissapppointed. I purchased this cook book thinking it was a cook book that featured all of the food found in California Pizza Kitchen Restaurants. Well needless to say my favorite Salad is not featured in this book. I always enjoy a Field Green Salad with Gorgonzola cheese this salad is not listed in the book...Putting together the salad is a breeze...I just wish I knew the ingredients to the dressing that makes it all worth while!

If you are only interested in the actual Pizza & Pasta recipes then this is still a great buy!!!

As good as it gets
Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :0
The two cookbooks are wonderful additions to any collection. The recipes are easy to follow and its like bringing California Pizza Kitchen into your own home, hands down. The only down side is these books dont have any new or newer reccipes. The salad dressings are the same and the pizza recipes are the same, but the other items that CPK offers now, these 2 cookbooks are very limited in the menu they have now and have had for the last ten years. We love what they do offer in the cookbooks and I hope they come out with a newer updated version.

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