Direct from Italy’s best chefs, here are authentic recipes from every province of the countryside, all featuring easy-to-follow cooking instructions. Traditional bakery favorites such as rolls, focaccia, and flatbreads are all included, with tried-and-true techniques for great results—even if this is your first try at making bread. There are also recipes for a mouthwatering range of calzones, and pizzas of every shape and size: Savor the fresh flavors of the Buffalo Mozzarella-topped Pizza, sample the light, tangy Arugula and Parmigiano-Reggiano Pizza, or revel in recipes for such classics as Four-Cheese, Pepperoni, and Neapolitan-style pizza. Each recipe is developed and tested in the test kitchens of the Academia Barilla’s own cooking institute, and each wonderful dish is bursting with the rich, sunny flavors of Italy.
This book deserves a 3 star from me. It again has a lot of inspiration or information is it perfect no. Did I alter my dough recipe yes. As far as the different recipes absolutely. Do I feel you could learn or get inspired for sure! It is similar to my other pizza book The Pizza Diet. I think sometimes authors don't think about what is available in different locations so you may have to adapt each recipe or the dough to what is available in your area. Also some of us home cookers get stuck cooking in our ways. (guilty).
I wasn't impressed with this cookbook at all. The first third felt more like a poorly done advertisement while the pizza recipes felt repetitive with just different toppings in order to bring the number of recipes to the desired magical figure. Compared to other Italian cookbooks this one fell quite short.