California Pizza Kitchen Cookbook

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.

Restaurateurs Larry Flax and Rick Rosenfield reveal the secrets of BBQ Chicken Pizza, Moo Shu Chicken Calzone and other freewheeling fare in The California Pizza Kitchen Cookbook, a February title from Macmillan. The book includes instructions for dough, recipes for side dishes such as salads and pastas, and photos of each creation.

If you have ever eaten at any one of the pizza kitchens in this extremely successful restaurant chain, you will know how popular their creative pizzas are with the American public. With this book, which seems to be their "official" publication, the home cook can replicate many of the out-of-the-ordinary pizzas for which the chain has become famous.

Larry Flax and Rick Rosenfield, co-founders of California Pizza Kitchen, were friends and law partners before trading in the courtroom for the dining room. They practiced law as Flax and Rosenfield from 1973 until they opened the first CPK in Beverly Hills in 1985. Flax, a Los Angeles native, served as Assistant U.S. Attorney (1968-72), Chief of Civil Rights (1970-71) and Assistant Chief of the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice in Los Angeles (1971-72). When not in the test kitchen, Flax enjoys playing golf and traveling with his wife, Joan. They have a son and reside in Beverly Hills. Rosenfield, born in Chicago, was an attorney for the United States Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. (1969-71) and an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice in Los Angeles. Rosenfield and his wife, Esther, have three children and they reside in Bel Air. A golfer as well as an avid jogger and marathon runner, Rosenfield runs daily to keep in shape.