The Most Comprehensive Guide to Pizza Ever has Landed

Modernist Pizza, the definitive guide to one of the world’s most popular foods, has landed. The three-volume collection, covering the history, culture, styles, and over 1000 pizza recipes, is designed to empower pizza fans and professionals around the world.

Volume one explores pizza’s history, its many styles, and top pizza destinations around the world. Volume 2 tackles the fundamentals of pizza making, such as dough, sauce, cheese, and toppings. And Volume 3 concentrates on recipes for both traditional and innovative pizzas from across the globe. A portable recipe manual tops off the set.

The Modernist Cuisine team has applied the same exhaustive research methodology that they applied to their five volume Modernist Bread book, leaving no pizza stone unturned in their pursuit of pizza perfection.

Travelling around the world, from Italy and the US, to Sao Paolo and Tokyo, they visited over 250 of the world's best pizzerias between them, meeting and learning from some of the world's best pizzaiolo in the process.

The Modernist Cuisine Team

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With over 1000 recipes and variations to choose between, from traditional Neapolitan Margherita, Brazilian thin-crust and Detroit-style doughs, to innovative sauces, cheeses and flavour combinations, like Hawaiian pizza with Kalua pork, all the pizza recipes and twists you could ever have dreamed of are here. They've even each been tested for perfect results in both professional and domestic ovens.

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As well as hundreds of incredible photos, there are also easy step-by-step pictures to help home cooks get their techniques right first time. "With the methods and hacks we developed, we can practically guarantee you'll make great pizza at home," says Migoya, Modernist Cusine's head chef.

There's also plenty to excite and stretch real pizza pros, with detail on new insights and techniques thanks to the hundreds of experiments conducted by the team - like a game-changing flavour-infused fior di latte mozzarella, and turning ordinary canned soup into an extraordinary tomato sauce.

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Nathan Myhrvold, culinary rule breaker and founder of Modernist Cuisine, interestingly dispels the common rules that prescribe good pizza making, like using a specific water for the dough, or baking pizzas in certain ovens. "Ultimately, the secret (if there is one) to making fantastic pizza is attention to detail on a few key points," he says.

And what better place to master those finer details than in the inspired hands of the Modernist Cuisine team in Modernist Pizza?

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