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Also by JoAnna M. Lund

The Healthy Exchanges Cookbook
HELP: The Healthy Exchanges Lifetime Plan
Cooking Healthy with a Man in Mind
Cooking Healthy with the Kids in Mind
Diabetic Desserts
Make a Joyful Table
Cooking Healthy Across America
A Potful of Recipes
Another Potful of Recipes
The Open Road Cookbook
Sensational Smoothies
Hot Off the Grill: The Healthy Exchanges Electric Grilling Cookbook
Cooking Healthy with Splenda
Cooking Healthy with a Microwave
The Diabetics Healthy Exchanges Cookbook
The Strong Bones Healthy Exchanges Cookbook
The Arthritis Healthy Exchanges Cookbook
The Heart Smart Healthy Exchanges Cookbook
The Cancer Recovery Healthy Exchanges Cookbook
String of Pearls
Family and Friends Cookbook
JoAnnas Kitchen Miracles
When Life Hands You Lemons, Make Lemon Meringue Pie
Cooking Healthy with Soy
Baking Healthy with Splenda
Cooking for Two
Cooking Healthy with a Food Processor

Dedication

This book, as always, is dedicated in loving memory to my parents, Jerome and Agnes McAndrews. Pizza was just gaining popularity in the early sixties as my mothers days of daily cooking and baking for her family were beginning to slow down. But I know if the ingredients of today were available to her back then, shed have been making homemade pizza for us at least once a week, each offering better than the week before! Mom was exceptionally creative when it came to cooking and Daddy was appreciative of everything she made. My sisters and I felt safe and secure as we sat together every night at the kitchen table as a family and said our prayer of thankfulness before we enjoyed another wonderful meal prepared with love by our mother.

However, my mother was just as creative and prolific when it came to writing poetry as she was in the kitchen. Id like to share one of her beautiful poems with you. My prayer is that you enjoy both Moms poem and my common folk healthy pizza recipes!

When the Sun Goes Down

I sit here by my window and watch
as the golden sun sinks into the west,
It envelops the earth into darkness,
while the day slowly goes to rest.
All life seems to follow this same pattern,
just as night succeeds the day,
Old age follows youth, spreading happiness
and sunshine along the way.
And now in the hush of the evening
while all nature seems to stand still,
My thoughts slowly begin to wander,
although its really against my will.
I recall the days of my childhood and
go back through memory lane,
Remembering so many happy moments
but some sad ones, too, remain.
These precious memories are like little
sunbeams, each one a bright ray of light.
Next will come the beautiful sunset,
then the dark curtain of night.
And someday, when the sunglow of my life
fades into knowing I tried to do my best,
From the portals of eternity, I pray that
my Maker welcomes me home to rest.

Agnes Carrington McAndrews

Acknowledgments

It takes many ingredients to make a good pizza. And so it is with writing a good pizza cookbook, too! For helping me do just that, I want to thank:

Shirley Morrow, Rita Ahlers, Phyllis Bickford, Cheryl Hageman, Gina Griep, and Jean Martensmy employees. Some typed, some cooked, some tasted, and some washed the dishes! But they all had to agree that the pizza was beyond this is good, or the recipe wasnt included!

Cliff Lundmy husband. Even though Cliff is on the road more than he is home, when he pulls that truck into our driveway, I know hes going to be mighty happy if I greet him with a kissand a tasty pizza!

Barbara Alpertmy writing partner. Barbara has a lot on her platewith working full-time teaching and mentoring school childrenbut she saved enough space to fit my pizza project into her busy schedule. Without her, this book might have gone cold before it ever got baked!

Coleen OSheamy literary agent. She is the one who suggested I take my idea of sharing a few of my favorite Healthy Exchanges pizza recipes in my newsletter and turning them into a whole book filled with all kinds of family-pleasing pizza ideas. Just as a good pizza needs a good oven, an author needs a good agent!

John Duffmy publisher and editor. I am so thankful that he, too, thought there would be enough interest in my common folk healthy pizza recipes to turn my idea into a real book. When you no longer have to call for pizza delivery, thank John!

Godmy creator and savior. When He blessed me with the ability to create healthy recipes, I think He doubly blessed me when it comes to pizza ideas. I wonder what kinds of pizza are served in the main dining hall of Heavensurely any in this collection are candidates!

Please Pass the Pizza!

Did you ever notice that when you walk by a pizza parlor, everyone inside is smiling and munching away on their pizzas? Families are sitting together sharing a pie or two. Kids are getting along. People are talking to each other, and theres rarely a frown in sight.

That, to me, is the power of pizza.

Maybe its because we eat it with our hands, so it just seems like more fun than other foods.

Maybe its because it comes to the table freshand we get to choose exactly what we want on it.

And maybe, just maybe, it creates its own sense of community. Sure, you can enjoy an individual pizza, but much of the time, eating pizza calls for company: a friend, or your whole family, or half your department at work.

Pizza seems to me to speak a rare universal language that reaches across the generations. Little kids, teenagers, young adults, twentysomethings just starting out, working parents, grandparentsthey all love pizza!

I can still recall the first pizza I ever tasted. It was way back around 1955, when I was eleven years old. My older sister and her date had driven down to the cities to eat at one of the first pizza parlors in Davenport. She brought back the leftovers for the rest of us to try. (Oh, yes, thats another reason to love this foodthere are almost always leftovers!)

That pizza was just a flat yeast crust with some tomato sauce and cheese sprinkled over the top. But it was almost like eating food from another planet, it was so different from what we were used to eating. As basic as that pizza was, I was hooked with my very first bite.

And just a few years later, there were pizzerias almost everywhere, including the small Iowa town where I grew up.

Who Made the First Pizza?

Its been fun to use the Internet to research the history of the pizza, but what Ive learned is that people dont agree about a number of the facts. We think of pizza as an Italian food, but its origins are likely quite ancient. Several sites I visited suggested that a forerunner of pizza was eaten by the Babylonians, the Israelites, the Egyptians, and other Middle Eastern cultures. This flat unleavened bread, much like the pita bread of today, was topped with olive oil and spices and cooked in mud ovens.

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