California Pizza Kitchen Pasta, Salads, Soups, And Sides

By Larry Flax and Rick Rosenfield

At California Pizza Kitchen restaurants across the country, many of the favorite dishes (and most-requested recipes) are not the pizzas Customers keep coming back for the boldly flavored pastas, soups, salads, and side dishes. The follow-up to the bestselling California Pizza Kitchen Cookbook, this new cookbook serves CPK customers just what they ordered -- secret restaurant recipes, never available before. With gorgeous color photographs of the finished dishes throughout the book, CPK fans will be tempted by recipes for Oriental Chicken Salad, Spinach Artichoke Dip, and Kung Pao Spaghetti, to name just a few.

The new cookbook will include stories and anecdotes from CPK employees from around the country about favorite recipes, customers, and more. In the generous spirit they're best known for, CPK owners Larry Flax and Rick Rosenfield will donate all royalties and proceeds from sales of the book in the restaurants to children's charities.

Just like the first CPK cookbook, expect Pasta, Salads, Soups, and Sides to be one of the hottest cookbooks of the year. The CPK chain of restaurants is bigger than ever, and thi5 new hook will be published in the cool California style that has made the first book and the restaurants themselves so popular.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688164668
• ISBN13: 9780688164669
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Excellent

It is definitely worth buying it! I bought it because of the Spinach & Artichoke dip, at first I was little intimidated but as I read the instructions there was nothing to it. I've made a full course meal out of this book and everybody raved about it. I can't wait to try more recipes, this is definetly a keeper!

CALIFORNIA PIZZA KITCHEN PASTA, SALADS, SOUPS, AND SIDES

WONDERFUL RECIPES. ESPECIALLY LOVE THE JAMBALAYA WHICH I HAD PREVIOUSLY SAVOURED IN ONE OF THEIR RESTAURANTS. WELL WRITTEN, WELL ILLUSTRATED. EASY TO FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS. I DEFINITELY PLAN TO PURCHASE THEIR NEXT BOOK.

Yummy for my tummy....Just as good as restaurant :-)

Though some of the recipes can be time consuming (bbq chicken salad...lots of chopping), they are absolutely delicious. To CPK's credit, they definately make you appreciate what you pay for. I use this book more than the pizza one. My favorite recipes are the BBQ chicken salad, Ceaser salad, the foccacia bread, the rosemary chicken sandwich, etc. Basically I cook the recipes I like to order and it tastes just like the restuarant, so make what you like to order :-). An added bonus is that by cooking it myself, I can incorporate lower fat options and adjust the recipe to save on calories. Happy cooking!

I love this one! Buy it just for the apple crisp recipe!

I like this one much better than the original California Pizza Kitchen Pizza recipe book. The pizzas really are too complicated for me to want to make at home. But the recipes in this book for soups, salads, sides & desserts are wonderful and easy to replicate at home. We love the Spaghetti Carbonara and the Apple Crisp is the best I have ever had!

Great recipe book that helps expand culinary horizons

I did not anticipate using this book very much, and purchased it intending to use one recipe I was familiar with and wanted. I ended up using nearly every recipe in the book. I have come to understand the artistry of cooking by studying the different uses of flavor and textures in this book. Whats even more appealing is that CPK donates all their proceeds from the book to charities. I would say the only downfall is that most recipes require planning (making the sauce the day before, stocking the oriental vegetable in the refrigerator, or cooking the chicken beforehand) I would definately say the final dishes are worth the preparation. This is especially a great book if you are interested in expanding the type of cuisine you eat (ie getting away from casseroles, chicken, mashed potatoes, the old standards) and eating more intersting and exotic foods, especially vegetables.