Modernist Pizza

Modernist Pizza is the definitive guide to the world's most popular food. Created by the team that published the critically acclaimed Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking and Modernist Bread, this groundbreaking set is the culmination of exhaustive research, travel, and experiments to collect and advance the world's knowledge of pizza.Authors Nathan Myhrvold and Francisco Migoya share practical tips and innovative techniques, which are the outcome of hundreds of tests and experiments. Spanning 1,708 pages, including three volumes plus a recipe manual, Modernist Pizza is much more than a cookbook: it's an indispensable resource for anyone who not only loves to eat pizza but is also interested in the science, stories, cultures, and history behind it.Each gorgeously illustrated chapter examines a different aspect of pizza, from its history and top travel destinations to dough, sauce, cheese, toppings, equipment, and more. Housed in a red stainless-steel case, Modernist Pizza contains over 1,000 traditional and avant-garde recipes to make pizza from around the globe, each carefully developed with both professional and home pizzaioli in mind. Modernist Pizza will provide you with the tools to evolve your craft, invent, and make sublime creations. There's never been a better time to make pizza.

The Modernist Cuisine team is an interdisciplinary group in Bellevue, Washington, founded by Nathan Myhrvold. The team is a collective of passionate chefs, scientists, researchers, photographers, engineers, machinists, editors, designers, and marketing experts who are all dedicated to making, capturing, and thinking about food in new ways. Their discoveries are shared through Modernist Cuisine's in-house publishing division, The Cooking Lab, which has produced award-winning books and published titles in eight (Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish) differ ent languages, with more than 350,000 copies in print. You can experience founder Nathan Myhrvold's innovative photo graphy at the Modernist Cuisine Gallery by Nathan Myhrvold, with locations around the US.

Modernist Pizza is the ultimate deep dive into one of the world's most beloved foods. Over four years of research in the making. Modernist Pizza delivers the story of pizza as it's never been told before. The book is the culmination of our findings and discoveries into the deliciously diverse world of pizza including, for the first time, a chapter on travel. Whether you're a professional pizzolo or new to making pizza, Modernist Pizza is for anyone who enjoys a slice. The recipes in this book were developed using both professional and home ovens (and equipment). Filled with gorgeous photographs and helpful illustrations, you'll find guides to help you choose gear, determine where to start with our dough recipes, and build your own pizzas. Modernist Pizza explores all aspects of pizza. Volumes of 1 and 2 cover the science, history, fundamentals, ingredients, pizza travels, and the techniques of making pizza. Volume 3 is dedicated to both traditional and innovative recipes portable. Modernist Pizza features mouthwatering recipes to satisfy any type of pizza craving, from a traditional margherita to new twists on cult classics, like like out Kalua pork-topped take on a Hawaiian pizza. You'll also find innovative sauces, cheeses, and flavour combinations as well as recipes for Neapolitan, New York, artisan, New York square, deep-dish, thin-crust, Brazilian thin-crust, focaccia, high-hydration al taglio, and Detroit style doughs, plus gluten-free variations.

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