American Pie

This books is comprised of two parts: part one is a retelling of the quest for the perfect pizza; part two is the recipes derived from the quest.

The first part is mouth–watering to the point of being pornographic. If you want to win me over it's apparently very easy to do so by telling me tales of crisp crusts with molten, bubbling blends of cheese. It's a story really ...but worth noting because the lesson is that there is no perfect pizza, just a confluence of pizza made with care and the moment it is created in.

The second part is recipes Reinhart has invented that mimic the ones he tasted, only they're better. I hope you like transcription because you'll probably want to copy the entire second half of the book down to your cookbooks.

As will agree with another review I read: After reading this book you'll never look at takeout pizza the same way again.