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The Art of Wood-Fired Cooking Kindle Edition

by Andrea Mugnaini (Author), John Thess (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 256 ratings
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This guide to using an outdoor oven “skillfully guides the reader” with photos, directions, and recipes for everything from pizza to poultry (Alice Waters).
 
Andrea Mugnaini has spent over twenty years perfecting the craft of wood-fired cooking. A pioneer of the industry, she founded the first cooking school dedicated to wood-fired cooking—and her oven importing company has brought the Italian style of cooking and living to America.
 
The Art of Wood-Fired Cooking begins with detailed instructional information on the ins and outs of the wood-burning oven. Mugnaini reveals the methods she has been teaching through her classes—and shares delicious recipes for pizzas, breads, fish, poultry, meats, vegetables, pastas, and desserts. Fire up the oven and enjoy:
  • Butterflied Shrimp
  • Zucchini Gratin with Tomatoes and Gruyere
  • Tuscan-Style Pot Roast with Herbs and Chianti
  • Focaccia with Onions and Thyme
  • Limoncello Bread Pudding with Fresh Blackberries
 
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    May 1, 2010
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Mugnaini (founder, Mugnaini Wood-Fired Cooking School) opens her first cookbook with essentials for starting and working a pizza oven fire, oven temperatures, and cookware. The pizza section features instructions and illustrations for making the dough and baking. Writing for beginners, Mugnaini includes a wide variety of recipes: e.g., Braised Lamb Shanks al Forno and Wood-Roasted Corn-on-the-Cob. For readers with a wood-burning oven, these recipes are perfect for all occasions. (Library Journal 2010-06-15)

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The Art of Wood Fired Cooking is filled with instructional information on how to properly fire a pizza oven so anyone can create and enjoy mouthwatering wood fired dishes at home.

Andrea Mugnaini shares the method of wood fired cooking she has perfected over the last twenty years for her cooking school, as well as many delightful recipes for pizzas, breads, fish, poultry, meats, vegetables, pastas, and desserts―all of which are absolutely delicious. Now you can fire up the oven and enjoy Wood-Roasted Butterflied Shrimp, Zucchini Gratin with Tomatoes and Fresh Savory, Tuscan Style Pot Roast with Herbs and Chianti, Focaccia with Onions and Thyme, and Limoncello Bread Pudding with Fresh Blackberries. When cooking with fire at home, the possibilities are endless!

Andrea Mugnaini started Mugnaini Imports in 1989 to bring the Italian style of cooking and living to America through wood fired pizza oven sales. A pioneer of the industry, Andrea founded the first school dedicated to wood fired cooking. When she is not teaching or in the office, Andrea entertains crowds in the Sonoma Wine Country with her interactive cooking events.

Jacket designed by Debra McQuiston

Cover photos © 2009 Joyce Oudkerk Pool

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B003XT5GD6
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gibbs Smith; 1st edition (May 1, 2010)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 1, 2010
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 7224 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 275 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 256 ratings

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4.5 out of 5 stars
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A must have book to operate your pizza oven well.
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A must have book to operate your pizza oven well.
This is truly a wonderful book and I highly recommend it. We just finished building our pizza Oven and needed help in learning how to operate it to make the best pizzas. This book gives great directions and has helped us tremendously besides having many recipes and tips.
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librarytammy
5.0 out of 5 stars A must have book to operate your pizza oven well.
Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2021
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This is truly a wonderful book and I highly recommend it. We just finished building our pizza Oven and needed help in learning how to operate it to make the best pizzas. This book gives great directions and has helped us tremendously besides having many recipes and tips.
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librarytammy
5.0 out of 5 stars A must have book to operate your pizza oven well.
Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2021
This is truly a wonderful book and I highly recommend it. We just finished building our pizza Oven and needed help in learning how to operate it to make the best pizzas. This book gives great directions and has helped us tremendously besides having many recipes and tips.
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LB Owen
5.0 out of 5 stars SUPERB!
Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2010
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This is a wonderful book! The pictures are enticing. The general information about using a wood burning oven are detailed and easy to follow and SUCCESSFUL-a practical and artful approach. The recipes are consistently exceptional yet never too difficult to deter us from making the effort. I highly recommend this book. We have had it just a short time, yet continue to make our way through this delightful collection of recipes. Ms. Mugaini is the Alice Waters of Wood Fired Cooking! Looking forward to book 2.
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Chris Somerlot
4.0 out of 5 stars Misleading title
Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2012
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The title should have been "The Art of Wood Fired OVEN Cooking", because all the recipes are for a specific form of outdoor oven. That said, it is a good overview of that specific topic. While I bought this thinking I would learn more about using dutch ovens, spits, foil packets and the like, it has inspired me to get a wood-fired oven and try cooking with it. The author clearly made an effort to not use any saleswoman-ship of her own line of ovens, so this book stands on its own pretty well.
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William J. Oehlkers
5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Yet
Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2010
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The growing interest in wood-fired brick ovens has led to a number of books about these wonderful ovens. As a brick oven owner, I have purchased a number of them and Andrea Mugnaini's is one of the best. As with other books in this field, it is beautifully illustrated and comes complete with recipes for pizza, bread, meat, seafood and other foods. What sets this book apart for me is the pizza recipe which I have used twice and found it to be outstanding. I did wonder why the recipe listed ingredients by volume rather than by metric weight which is the growing custom, but nevertheless, the results were superb. Quibbles? It would be helpful to have the pizza recipe placed before the technique for making the dough. Also, some text, a small portion, is in yellow Another color would be less annoying and more legible. Would I add anything? Yes, a DVD with Andrea demonstrating how to make pizza. We can't all get out to her cooking school. I highly recommend this book.
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Andrew H. Stone
5.0 out of 5 stars As necessary as a pizza peel
Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2012
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I finished building my wood fired oven this summer and have been exploring the limited books written on using them. I've bought or borrowed every book I can find on the topic and this one's the best. From starting a fire, heating the oven, to the excellent recipes, this book explains how to use the oven in careful and easy to follow instructions. Explains the various levels of fire/ heat and their uses. Best explanation of how to pull a pizza dough of any of the multiple WFO and pizza books I've read. Great variety of recipes to get you started.
If you've invested in a wood fired oven, you're obviously going to want a few books on how to use it. Be sure to include this one.
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Aaron Mountain
3.0 out of 5 stars Good. Read..... oh, nope... just a cool book
Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2019
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Good info for about 12 pages... after that it’s just a cookbook.... decent recipes but still... wanted more from the function of a wood fired oven.... bit disappointed.
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Lou Kief
5.0 out of 5 stars A must have addition if you cook in an outdoor oven
Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2012
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We built a wood-fired oven on our terrace and needed the basics on how to fire it up, maintain the heat and all the how-to's of using it. This book gives you that and a lot more. It's full of great photos and easy to read science of cooking with wood. The recipes we've used from it have been excellent and we have many more to try. When you pick it up you'll drag it outside and start building a fire to get started. It's THAT good. Enjoy.
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KP
4.0 out of 5 stars This is a decent read particularly if you are learning ...
Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2015
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This is a decent read particularly if you are learning the fire management techniques for you home oven. While nothing is particularly ground breaking and can be found elsewhere having it in one place and presented so well really brought clarity to how I fired my oven and then managed the flame.
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Mima Gonzalez
5.0 out of 5 stars Muy padre libro
Reviewed in Mexico on August 20, 2022
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Lo he disfrutado mucho. Buenos tips para cocinar en horno de leña
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5.0 out of 5 stars Good information on how to ire up your oven
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 4, 2018
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If you just buy this book just for the information on ovens, how to fire them up and maintain heat, it will be money well spent. The colour pictures give you a good indication of where heat is in relation to the fire. Don't worry about the recipes, you can cook any thing in these ovens, i just wacked out some mini roast potatoes in mine.
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Proud Canadian
5.0 out of 5 stars Cooking With Wood Ovens
Reviewed in Canada on January 10, 2017
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If you love food and cooking you will enjoy this book. Doing things the way our ancestors did with a touch of modern flair. Anything you can make in an oven can be done with fire and the enhancing flavor of smoke. Buy it, try it, and enjoy. A well written book. Seller was great to deal with, fast shipping and awesome service.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Most helpful.
Reviewed in Australia on August 22, 2016
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This book starts with the basics of oven firing which was a great help to me. It is a very informative and well structured book that will help me improve on what I already know through mistakes I have made. An excellent and easy read.
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Pickersgill
5.0 out of 5 stars great recipes
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 20, 2020
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A good explanation on how to use a wood fired oven with recipes covering a great range of ideas
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