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Learn to COOK - The California Pizza Kitchen Cookbook
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List Price: $22.00
Our Price: $14.96
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Manufacturer: Wiley
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.824
EAN: 9780028609881
ISBN: 0028609883
Label: Wiley
Manufacturer: Wiley
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 112
Publication Date: 1995-12-18
Publisher: Wiley
Studio: Wiley
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Editorial Reviews:
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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 America's 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 you're a creative cook with a taste for bold, fun, international flavors, The California Pizza Kitchen Cookbook is the cookbook for you.
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Summary: I was a bit dissappointed
Comment: 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!!!
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Summary: not worth the money at all
Comment: this book is way over priced and not even close to what I was told it would be. Its JUNK
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Summary: Be prepared for a bit of complexity
Comment: 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 aren't so easy to make. I love the Tandoori Chicken Pizza, but between making that and my wife's 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!
Customer Rating:
Summary: As good as it gets
Comment: 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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Summary: Love this book
Comment: I love this cookbook. As far as the dough recipes go, I have no idea if they turn out well because I use a Boboli pizza crust. If your a Rachael Ray fan, you'll figure out how to make most of these pizzas with the quickness. My favorite CPK pizza is the peking duck pizza, since my grocery store doesn't carry duck and I'm not going out of my way to find it(I want what I want when I want it) I buy precooked Tyson chicken and mix it with a lil hoisin sauce and proceed with the recipe. And it is sooo delicious-same flavour components, and I don't miss the dough. If I'm not starving I'll cook up some chicken breasts. Honestly, if you just use a pre-made pizza dough and a lil creativity you can get most of these pizzas in the oven in less than 15 minutes. When I make these pizzas, everyone loves them. And my friends that eat at CPK say they taste just like it. Buy the book, you will not regret it!!! If you do live near a CPK call them and ask if you can buy the dough from them, many pizza joints sell their dough.
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