Bangladesh, Dec. 2 -- Let Thanksgiving have the turkey. Let Christmas have fruitcake. Every other day, it's got to be pizza.

So argue Thom and James Elliot, brothers and pizza makers from England who have written a book celebrating the worldwide phenomenon of roundish dough cooked with toppings.

In the 270-page "Pizza" (Quadrille), the brothers offer over 30 recipes for homemade pizzas - including a carbonara and one with asparagus and pancetta - as well as eating guides to delicious slices in cities like Rome, Paris, Chicago and New York. It turns out New Haven, Connecticut, has a very distinct and vibrant pizza scene, though its just 70 miles from New York.

The Elliots marvel that while the pizza we eat today was invented in Naples i...