Why the search for the perfect pizza is never-ending – it’s more to do with emotions than ingredients

This cookbook is just one of several on my shelves that focuses on pizza. Every cook who’s been bitten by the pizza-making bug is in “search for the perfect pizza”. In American Pie (2003), Peter Reinhart searches for the perfect pizza in Italy and the United States (if he were to do an update, he should check out Japan). In his introduction, he points out that one’s perception of “perfec­tion” can change. “For a long time, I thought the best pizza...