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Back in March I released an app called iPizzeria which was a collection of pizza recipes and helpful tips on making pizza at home. We love making pizza and this app was developed more as a way of sharing that enthusiasm. It’s done well in the App Store but I never thought it was quite complete.

For the last couple of months I’ve been working on updating it to something much more than a list of recipes. Now, after much work and producing hundreds of photos, it is released in the App Store under the new name Pizza Americana [iTunes, $2.99], which is Italian for American Pizza.

I call this a pizza cookbook because it has the usual things found in a cookbook; recipes, glossary, chapters, etc. But unlike cookbooks Pizza Americana takes advantage of the iPhone’s touchscreen interface to deliver step-by-step preparation guides. Simply swipe the screen to move to the next step. It works great sitting on your counter or kitchen table while making preparations.

Each step shows an illustrative photo with concise instructions in a large, easy to read font. Units of measure can easily be switched between english and metric with a single tap. This interface was developed and refined through practical use, meaning we worked with it ourselves almost daily in developing Pizza Americana. It has been through many iterations and polished to where it now works nice, very nice.

Twenty five recipes are included in the cookbook for pizza, dough, and sauce. There’s a tremendous amount of work involved in producing each step-by-step guide so not all recipes have the guide. In this first release there are ten step-by-step guides and ultimately there’ll be a guide for each recipe.

Enjoy!