The California Pizza Kitchen Cookbook

by Larry Flax, Rick Rosenfield

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.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Food, Nonfiction

128 pages, Hardcover

First published December 18, 1995

Reviews

[Jenny · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cookbook with recipes from the restaurant chain: pizzas, pastas, soups and salads.

Finally done with this one! First, it was fun to see that the founders of the California Pizza Kitchen were originally Assistant US Attorneys who loved pizza because my husband is an AUSA who loves pizza! He has no plans to open his own pizza restaurant, but I like that there's a precedent. Secondly, it took forever to cook through this cookbook because I couldn't find one ingredient (corn husks) for a recipe that I wanted to do (sweet corn tamales). My SIL Carrie found them for me around Christmas time and I finally got around to making them. It was a shame to discover, though, that I found that recipe to be bland (Gavin liked them with a touch of salt). To have waited almost a whole year for that! Out of the 17 recipes I tried, 8 were great or good, 8 were so-so, and 1 was terrible. The bottom line, however, is that this cookbook is not a keeper, since it's very impractical. The ingredients and steps are involved for how the recipes turn out, so this would be a cookbook that you would use maybe as a fun weekend project.

[Amy Schoon · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the best recipe books I've ever had. One taste of the Thai Chicken Pizza, and I was a goner.

[Joyce · Rating 4 out of 5]

I can still remember going to the California Pizza Kitchen in California with some friends many years ago. The pizzas on the menu were so different and so good. Thai Chicken Pizza! Whoever heard of that! Well it's absolutely delicious and today not as novel an idea as it was back then. The concept has since caught on big time. And I love homemade pizza. So this book represents a lot of good pizzas and fun.

[Sallie · Rating 1 out of 5]

I did not like this cookbook. It had no original recipes in it that I've not seen or made before and no pizza dough recipe. I know they would not give away trade secrets but come on, this book sucks!!

[Patricia · Rating 3 out of 5]

No recipe for the hummus nor the spinach-artichoke dip AND these fools expect me to sit around and make my own dough??? wtf, mate???

[Michelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of my favorite cookbooks. Love it!

[Bridget · Rating 4 out of 5]

As good as the restaurant in the Fashion Show Mall in Las Vegas, NV

[Kim · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thai Chicken Pizza. Need I say more?