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• Sitton, Diane Morey

It’s little wonder that innovative bistros with their gourmet pizzas and flatbreads are booming from coast to coast. Talented chefs adapting novel toppings are the rule, and spectacular, browned and blistered crusts the expectation. The ultimate comfort food has never been so delicious or so adored.

Before Bistro Pizza at Home, such exceptional new standards raised the bar too high for the home cook. But now, thanks to chef and bistro restaurateur Lloyd Sittser (known as “The Man with his Eye on the Pie”) fantastic results and culinary pride are reliably achieved in the humblest of kitchens. Here is the opportunity for classic home theater in two acts as the sweet, yeasty oven aroma warms up the audience before the bright, visually sensual, signature pie takes center stage to enthusiastic applause!

Bistro Pizza at Home instructs every step of the way in creating bistro quality meals from scratch. Each of the 95 finished pizza and 35 flatbread recipes are illustrated in full-color. Readers draw upon an array of styles including Asian, Caribbean, Country Garden, Farmhouse Rustico, Paisano Primo, Ranch Grande, and Seafood Harvest to create their own signature dishes.

A special, illustrated section describes in detail dough processing, flour selection and formation of both thin and deep dish crusts (with a nod given to ranking commercial crusts for those wishing to take shortcuts).