Secrets of the Best Chefs

the crisper it’ll be. If you’re using a pizza stone, make the dough into a round shape. If you’re using a cookie sheet, stretch ...

Pizza Sauce Makes enough for 2 to 3 pizzas The flavors in this pizza sauce are big because they mellow as they cook. When you ta ...

Using a hand blender, blend the mixture until it’s the consistency of a chunky tomato soup. (A regular blender will get it too w ...

Margherita Pizza ...

Serves 2 to 4 ...

There are two secrets to an excellent Margherita pizza (named after Italy’s Queen Margherita and visually representative of the ...

cookie sheet, place the pizza in the oven. Bake the pizza for approximately 10 minutes*, until the cheese is brown and bubbly an ...

The Brooklyn Pizza Serves 2 to 4 This is a balanced, nuanced version of the classic New York–style pizza that inspired Pettit to ...

just a thin layer of sauce or your pizza will be soggy. Rub the aged mozzarella between your hands and sprinkle over the pizza i ...

Sausage and Pickled Pepper Pizza Serves 2 to 4 If the first two pizza recipes are a welcome taste of the familiar, this is a piz ...

plate and allow to cool. Get the oven as hot as you can get it (most likely, 500°F). If you have a pizza stone, place it in the ...

let stand for 5 minutes. Uncover, cool to room temperature, and pour into a jar. They’ll keep like that for several weeks in you ...

Alice Waters Owner, Chez Panisse; and founder, Chez Panisse Foundation Berkeley, California When most people think of a great ch ...

exercise in good taste. For example, let’s talk about her vinegar. “I’ve tried and tried,” she tells me, “to find a great wine v ...

Primavera; the cheese is a local Monterey Jack. “I’m looking for the things that really make a difference,” says Waters. “Certai ...

“I never had a green thumb and I still don’t, but I befriend people who have green thumbs.” ...

Waters’s Kitchen Know-How THE BEST VEGETABLES come, in season, from farmer’s markets, but what do you do if there’s not a farmer ...

Farmer’s Market Salad with Garlic Vinaigrette Serves 2 to 4 When Alice Waters makes a salad, you pay attention. “One of the fail ...

1 celery stalk (plus the leaves) A few handfuls of mesclun Make the dressing in a mortar. Add the garlic clove and a pinch of sa ...

Charred and Cheesy Garden Salad Tacos Makes 4 tacos I have to admit, Waters took me by surprise when she opened a package of cor ...