Flour Water Salt Yeast by Ken Forkish teaches you to bake bakery-quality bread and pizza at home—crispy crust, open crumb, dinner entirely on your own schedule.
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Pizza-making here spans artisan levain doughs and regional pan styles like Detroit and Sicilian to vegan dough staples and pizza chapters folded into broader baking and Italian travel books.
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Flour Water Salt Yeast by Ken Forkish teaches you to bake bakery-quality bread and pizza at home—crispy crust, open crumb, dinner entirely on your own schedule.
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Nine regional styles and 75 recipes prove why Tony Gemignani's The Pizza Bible turns your home oven into the one place you'll actually want to make dinner.

Your sourdough starter finally has a worthy handbook—one that meets you exactly where you are, which is precisely what Maurizio Leo achieves in The Perfect Loaf.

Stop buying vegan cheese and start making something better, which is exactly what Miyoko Schinner and Isa Chandra Moskowitz deliver in The Homemade Vegan Pantry.
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Mastering Pizza insists that stop ordering pizza once you taste what your oven can actually do, and Marc Vetri and David Joachim prove it with doughs calibrated for every kitchen in America.
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BAKE makes a case that your oven's been waiting for a baker this confident, and Paul Hollywood has the recipes to prove it.

Old World Italian by Mimi Thorisson invites you to cook your way through Italy's regional treasures—from Tuscan butter sauces to Sicilian seafood—without leaving your kitchen.

Perfect Pan Pizza by Peter Reinhart brings Detroit, Sicily, Rome, and your kitchen together through 3 master doughs and the kind of crispy, crowd-pleasing pies that need no specialty equipment.
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Updated August 2026
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