California Pizza Kitchen Family Cookbook California Pizza Kitchen has been a hit with families ever since the first restaurant opened back in 1985. Grown-ups love CPK's signature pizzas, which take favorite flavor combinations from around the globe and put them on a pizza. Children love the CPKids menu, which features kid-friendly pizzas and pastas. And everybody loves CPK's zesty appetizers, sandwiches, soups, salads, specialty entrees, and desserts. Now, in their new cookbook, CPK co-founders and co-CEOs Larry Flax and Rick Rosenfield show you and your family how to prepare pizzas, kids' favorites, and other CPK specialties right in your own kitchen. These crowd-pleasing recipes bring the CPK experience home-and are perfect for relaxed family meals as well as special celebrations. Best of all, each of the nearly fifty recipes is a cinch to make, which means your whole family can have fun helping out in the kitchen. Your kids will love the CPKids Pizza Party recipes, including a Create-Your-Own Pizza specially designed to help them unleash their pizza creativity. If you're a fan of CPK's signature pies, you'll find recipes for standouts like Jamaican Jerk Chicken Pizza and Chipotle Chicken Pizza. You also get special holiday-themed pizzas, like a Halloween Jack-o-Lantern Pizza, that are perfect for parties-plus fun desserts like S'mores "Pizza." And to top it all off, there are recipes for a whole range of other CPK family favorites, from Thai Crunch Salad and Curly Mac & Cheese to Grilled Chicken Pesto Panini and Chicken Piccata with Spaghettini. And don't forget the dough! You'll find recipes for three kinds-Traditional, Honey-Wheat, and thin-crust Neapolitan-along with step-by-step instructions and photographs to help you roll, stretch, and shape dough like a pro. Illustrated throughout with inspiring color photo-graphs, the California Pizza Kitchen Family Cookbook is just what you need to get your whole family involved with cooking, get creative in the kitchen-and serve up tasty pizzas and other favorite dishes that everyoneloves to eat.

Larry Flax and Rick Rosenfield are the co-founders and co-CEOs of California Pizza Kitchen. Larry and Rick were friends and law partners before trading in the courtroom for the dining room, practicing law as Flax and Rosenfield from 1973 until they opened their first CPK restaurant in Beverly Hills in 1985. Today, the chain has grown to more than 230 restaurants in thirty states and eight countries, including twenty-five CPK ASAP quick-service locations. Larry and Rick are also the authors of The California Pizza Kitchen Cookbook and California Pizza Kitchen Pasta, Salads, Soups, and Sides. Visit the CPK Web site at www.cpk.com.

100 percent of CPK's proceeds from this book will be donated to children's charities.