The Perfect Loaf

The key to incredible pizza at home? A great dough.

You don’t need fancy tools to make amazing pizza at home. You need great dough.

Use my new book and your sourdough starter to make the best pizza in your home oven.

Pre-order your copy:

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Order your copy by November 14th and get:

  1. Live, editable spreadsheets for every dough recipe in the book. Easily scale and modify recipes: type in how many pizzas you want, and the recipe recalculates to the gram.
  2. Four never-before-seen recipes: Garlic Knots, Sub & Hoagie Rolls, Pane di Grano Duro, and Mimmo’s Garlic Bread Spread. A few of my favorites that wouldn’t fit.
  3. A private live bake-along on Friday, November 13. We’ll bake from the book together on YouTube, and I’ll answer questions the entire way.

 

How it works:

  1. Order the book from any retailer.
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What's in the book?

Step-by-step instructions on every part of the process: maintaining your sourdough starter, balancing extensibility and elasticity in your dough, stretching and launching pizza in a home oven, and building topping combinations that work.

The book includes QR codes to watch technique and recipe videos as you bake your way through.


Over 40 sourdough pizza and focaccia recipes, including:

Essentials:
My sourdough pizza recipes for every occasion.
My Go-To Pizza Dough; Same-Day Pizza Dough; A Pizza and a Loaf

American and Italian Styles:
New York Style; Tavern Style; Sicilian Style; Pizza al Taglio; Pizza Bianca; Pizza Tonda Romana

Exploring Flours and Grains:
Pizza using whole and freshly-milled flour.
Sixty-Forty Whole Grain Pizza Dough; Toasted Flour Pizza Dough; A Touch of Rye Pizza Dough

Focaccia:
A Simple Focaccia; Crispy High-Hydration Focaccia; 100% Whole Grain Focaccia; Focaccia with Chocolate-Hazelnut Spread

… plus sauces and condiments, a sourdough starter discard chapter, pan scaling guides, and a complete troubleshooting section.

Photos by Nico Schinco

Plus: Recipes for using leftover pizza dough

Sourdough English muffins, breadsticks, sub (hoagie) rolls, and pita.

The Perfect Pizza sourdough discard recipes: sub rolls, english muffins, breadsticks, and pita.

Every recipe in this book was developed and tested in my home oven. If it works in my kitchen, it'll work in yours.

Get Your Copy of The Perfect Pizza!

Also interested in sourdough bread? Check out my bread book, The Perfect Loaf.

The Perfect Loaf Cookbook Cover