Nine Books for National Pizza Day
February 9 is National Pizza Day. This year it is also Shrove Tuesday, a day when folks traditionally eat pancakes.
Personally, I prefer pizza to pancakes, well, to almost anything really.
Here are nine books to help celebrate National Pizza Day:
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Artisan Pizza and Flatbread in Five Minutes a Day by Jeff Hertzberg and Zoe Francois
• eBook
My Pizza: the Easy No-Knead Way to Make Spectacular Pizza at Home by Jim Lahey with Rick Flaste
• eBook
Pizza: 50 Traditional and Alternative Recipes for the Oven and Grill by Dwayne Ridgaway
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The Pizza Bible: the World's Favorite Pizza Styles from Neapolitan, Deep-Dish, Wood-Fired, Sicilian, Calzones and Foccacia to New York, New Haven, Detroit and More by Tony Gemignani
• eBook
Pizza Night by Kate McMillan
Pizza On the Grill: 100+ Feisty Fire-Roasted Recipes for Pizza and More by Elizabeth Karmel
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Pizza: Seasonal Recipes from Rome's Legendary Pizzarium by Gabriele Bonci with Elisia Menduni
Truly Madly Pizza: One Incredibly Easy Crust, Countless Inspired Combinations to Make Pizza a Nightly Affair by Suzanne Lenzer
Vegan Pizza: 50 Cheesy, Crispy, Healthy Recipes by Julie Hassan
If you prefer pancakes, there are books for you, too:









5 thoughts on “Nine Books for National Pizza Day”
Thank you, Margaret, for your delicious blog about pizza. I have heard that the smell of melting cheese is the most enticing of all food aromas, and I agree!
Please don’t leave out “How pizza came to our town” by Dayal Kaur Khalsa? It’s our favourite pizza book!
Hi, Karen
Thank you for your recommendation! Next year I will include fiction, too. One I liked this year was A Highly Unlikely Scenario, Or, A Neetsa Pizza Employee’s Guide to Saving the World.
http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDM3067592&R=3067592
Thanks, Muriel. Bread, tomatoes and cheese are a perfect combination. I don’t know why we bother with anything else!
National Pizza Day? Surprise! These all look yummy!