Pizza

Pizza Margherita
Pizza Margherita

Pizza Margherita excerpted from Everyday Italian Cookbook: 90+ Favorite Recipes for La Cucina Italiana by Domenica Marchetti. Photography by Eron Scott.

Everyday Italian Cookbook: 90+ Favorite Recipes for La Cucina Italiana  by Domenica Marchetti

Celebrate Italian cuisine with more than 90 recipes for authentic, carefree dishes perfect for small gatherings and everyday meals with friends and family.

Take a culinary journey through l’Italia with more than 90 recipes for fresh, authentic Italian cooking. The dishes in this mouthwatering collection emphasize carefree Italian cuisine perfect for elevating everyday dining.

For intimate gatherings, a batch of Turin-style breadsticks with prosciutto served with Garibaldi spritz cocktails is sure to impress. Celebrate summer flavours and enjoy a night of alfresco dining with bowls of summer minestrone and a peach, tomato and burrata salad garnished with fresh mint and basil. On busy weeknights, a crispy pizza with roasted peppers and soppressata satisfies even the pickiest of eaters. And nothing caps off a delicious evening quite like a sweet pick-me-up such as a dark chocolate panna cotta with cherries.

Including a handy section on stocking your Italian pantry and notes on classic Italian staples, Everyday Italian serves as a handy compendium for home cooks of all skill levels to add a little italiana to their kitchens.

90+ RECIPES: Flavourful Italian recipes in this volume span appetizers, soups, salads, pastas, rice and polenta dishes, pizzas and focaccias; meat, fish, and vegetable entrees; and desserts. (more…)

Broccoli Rabe, Sausage & Smoked Mozzerela Pizza
Broccoli Rabe, Sausage & Smoked Mozzerela Pizza

Broccoli Rabe, Sausage & Smoked Mozzarella Pizza excerpted from Williams Sonoma Pizza: Delicious Recipes for Anytime by Williams Sonoma. Photography by Erin Scott.

Williams Sonoma Pizza: Delicious Recipes for Anytime by Williams Sonoma Learn to turn out perfect pizzas at home with this crowd-pleasing collection of fabulous pies that will rival your favourite pizzeria.

With an array of pizza recipes—from classics and seasonal specialties to Italian favourites and more—that will appeal to all palates, this cookbook is the ultimate go-to guide for making pizzeria-perfect pies at home. Recipes are organized by type with chapters for vegetarian options, pizzas topped with meat or cheese, different doughs—including gluten free and cauliflower—flavourful sauces, and fresh salads to round out the meal. Expert tips for troubleshooting to ensure good results will help you become a pizzaiolo at home in no time.

CATERS TO EVERY PREFERENCE: Features recipes for pizzas for any eating preference, from vegetarian to vegan to carnivore. Mix-and-match crusts and sauces make easy customized pizzas for different tastes

GUIDANCE FROM THE BEST: Expert tips will ensure success in every part of crafting a perfect pie at home

MAKE IT CLASSIC OR CLASSY: From a classic margherita to a CA-style pizza with fresh figs and gorgonzola and a cacio e pepe pie, the recipes span old-world favourites and modern combinations (more…)

Epic Veggie Pizza
Epic Veggie Pizza

Epic Veggie Pizza excerpted from Epic Outdoor Pizza Oven Cookbook: Masterpiece Recipes for All Kinds of Pizza by Jonathon Schuhrke. Photography by Andrew Hugh Purcell.

Epic Outdoor Pizza Oven Cookbook: Masterpiece Recipes for All Kinds of Pizza by Jonathon Schuhrke.

Become your neighborhood’s master pizza maker, and get the most enjoyment and use from your outdoor pizza oven, with this truly epic cookbook.

Outdoor pizza ovens bake up a crispy crust and deeply flavorful toppings in a matter of just a few minutes. That’s why millions of people all over the world are buying and using them. But if you are going to bake something that quickly, you need to have the perfect recipe before you bake: the super-fast cooking time leaves no room for error. Enter pizza-obsessed outdoor-oven wizard Jonathon Schuhrke, aka the Santa Barbara Baker, an official ambassador for the popular Ooni brand but also an expert on all the other makes and models of oven on the market.

With a background in the sciences, Jonathon is famous in the pizza-oven community for troubleshooting—and solving—common pizza-making challenges for outdoor-oven users: Why is the edge done but the center undone? Why did the toppings overcook and burn? What’s the ideal oven temperature for a perfectly baked pizza? You’ll get answers to all these questions and more in The Epic Outdoor Pizza Oven Cookbook. (more…)

Potato pizza
Potato pizza

Potato pizza excerpted from Salad Pizza Wine by Janice Tiefenbach, Stephanie Mercier Voyer, Ryan Gray and Marley Sniatowsky. Copyright © 2023 Photographs by Dominique Lafond.

Salad Pizza Wine by Janice Tiefenbach, Stephanie Mercier Voyer, Ryan Gray and Marley Sniatowsky. Copyright © 2023 Janice Tiefenbach, Stephanie Mercier Voyer, Ryan Gray, and Marley Sniatowsky. Photographs by Dominique Lafond.

A different kind of cookbook, from a different kind of restaurant. The team behind the award-winning Montreal pizza joint Elena presents Salad Pizza Wine, delivering recipes for all of life’s good things, with fresh, delicious and easy-to-recreate takes on modern Italian dishes, including:

Elena’s famous pizza
If you could eat pizza every day and feel great, would you believe it? From heavy hitters to off-menu pies, the secret to a pizza-filled life is in Elena’s naturally leavened dough.

Salads + Vegetables
Like people, this book contains multitudes; you can stuff your face with pizza on the daily and take pleasure in eating vegetables with the seasons.

Pasta
Learn how to make two super versatile doughs and their multiple variations, and impress your loved ones with an all-star roster of favourite pastas.

Meat + Fish
Take your pick from weeknight-friendly recipes, dishes to save for special occasions and one once-in-a-lifetime adventure: the gargantuan Timpano, inspired by the classic film Big Night.

Hoagies
Who doesn’t love sandwiches? Portable and easy to share with a friend, hoagies are also perfect for wrapping up all your tasty leftovers.

Desserts
End every meal on a high note with a series of serious sweet treats for beginners and advanced bakers alike.

Go-Tos
Lay the foundation for your home-cooking adventure with basic recipes that deliver big flavour, from crunchy toasted breadcrumbs and multi-purpose sauces to simple pickles and homemade cheeses.
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Mushroom, Caramelized Onion and Goat Cheese Pizza
Mushroom, Caramelized Onion and Goat Cheese Pizza

Mushroom, Caramelized Onion and Goat Cheese Pizza excerpted from Together at Sobo by Lisa Ahier, with Susan Musgrave. Copyright © 2023 Lisa Elaine Ahier. Photographs by Jeremy Koreski. Published by Appetite by Random House®, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited.

Together at SoBo: More Recipes and Stories from Tofino's Beloved Restaurant by Lisa Ahier

To know Tofino is to know SoBo, the restaurant at the heart of this magnetic West Coast surf town. Since opening as a purple food truck 20 years ago, SoBo (short for “sophisticated bohemian”) has been bringing people together with Chef Lisa Ahier’s fresh West Coast fare.

Year after year, locals and visitors alike return for her killer cooking and the relaxed warmth that can only be found here. Bring home this new slice of SoBo to share with your loved ones.

In Together at SoBo, Chef Lisa Ahier shares all-new recipes from her beloved restaurant. Lisa’s recipes are love letters to Tofino and its position as the most westerly point of Canada. Drawing from local produce and a wealth of seafood, these are Pacific Northwest recipes enhanced by Lisa’s Southern flair. (more…)

Lemon-infused pizza with sausage, mozzarella, and arugula
Lemon-infused pizza with sausage, mozzarella, and arugula

Lemon-infused pizza with sausage, mozzarella, and arugula excerpted from Gennaro’s Limoni: Vibrant Italian Recipes Celebrating the Lemon by Gennaro Contaldo.

Gennaro's Limoni: Vibrant Italian Recipes Celebrating the Lemon by Gennaro Contaldo

Ask a foodie about the Amalfi Coast and lemons immediately spring to mind. The sweet, aromatic, large and thick-skinned sfusato Amalfitano is the extraordinary and delectable citrus fruit that Gennaro Contaldo grew up with.

Lemons were and still are a part of daily life for locals of the Amalfi Coast, and Gennaro continues this tradition in his everyday cooking. From a sliver of zest in his morning espresso to helping with minor ailments and even household chores, lemons have a wealth of uses.

No part of the lemon is wasted—flesh, pith, and skin are chopped into salads, juice is drizzled over meat, fish, and veggies, while the aromatic zest adds a complexity to a dish’s flavour. Even the leaves are used to wrap meat, fish and cheese for extra flavour, or finely chopped and made into a tea infusion.

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Double Pepperoni & Spicy Honey Pizza
Double Pepperoni & Spicy Honey Pizza

Double Pepperoni & Spicy Honey Pizza, excerpted from Pizza: History, recipes, stories, people, places, love. By Thom Elliot and James Elliot. Photography by Dave Brown.

Pizza: History, recipes, stories, people, places, love

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 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 a New York 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!

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Deep-dish meatball pizza pie
Deep-dish meatball pizza pie

Deep-dish meatball pizza pie, Travels with My Spatula: Recipes & stories from around the world by Tori Haschka. Photography by Isobel Wield.

Travels with my Spatula

If you’ve ever found yourself dreaming about that time you spent sipping Margaritas in Mexico, or when you had to have just one more croquette from the mouth-watering displays of tapas in Spain, you’re not alone.

Tastes, aromas, and the whole foodie experience of a country can stay with you for years, and make you want to pack your bags and relive that moreish moment in time.

Food and travel writer Tori Haschka felt exactly the same every time she travelled, finding herself collecting Post-It notes of memorable dishes she’d eaten and then—when she got home—she’d capture her experiences through recreating recipes.

Split into chapters covering brunch, sweet treats and summer and winter recipes, you can try her slow-cooked ribs from Brooklyn, the perfect pasta dish from Rome, or luscious lentil koshary from Cairo; each recipe is a delicious memory waiting to be brought back to life in her home and yours. Who knows, it may even inspire you to book a flight and take a foodie journey of your own!

Travels with My Spatula: Recipes & stories from around the world is available at Amazon.com and Indigo.ca. (more…)

Margherita Pizza
Margherita Pizza, The Silver Spoon Classic

Margherita Pizza, The Silver Spoon Classic

Italian culture is defined in part by the art of cooking, blending ancient traditions with contemporary innovation. First published in 2005, The Silver Spoon has helped transform a generation of English speakers into experienced Italian cooks.

The Silver Spoon Classic is a luxurious collection of 170 of the most authentic recipes from the world’s leading Italian cookbook, complete with new photography and a fresh, updated design.

The title of this seminal cookbook derives from the English phrase, “a baby born with a silver spoon in her mouth,” which describes someone who has been born into a rich heritage.

The original Il Cucchio d’Argento was published in 1950. Since then, millions of copies have been sold around the world. Phaidon’s 2005 edition was followed by an updated and revised edition in 2011, which continues to be the most authoritative book on Italian home cooking.

The Silver Spoon Classic is the definitive compilation of the original cookbook’s best and most iconic recipes, featuring newly photographed dishes and written in language that is accessible to gourmands and beginners alike.

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Margherita Naan Pizza 
Margherita Naan Pizza 

Photography by Nik Sharma

It is a rare cookbook that comes to represent the way we eat now, translating the world of food and restaurants for the home kitchen and capturing moderns diversity so beautifully. Season is this book.

It was named one of the best and most anticipated cookbooks by The New York Times, Food & Wine, Epicurious, Eater, Grub Street, The New Yorker, TheKitchn, The Forward, and Delish and a Book Club Pick for Bon Appetit.

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