All You Need to Know to Make a Great Pizza Tonight

The first rule of good pizza is heat. You need a lot of heat to create those crisp, shatteringly delicate crusts that lift an ordinary pizza into transcendence. But here’s a little secret: You can easily make this sort of crust in your home kitchen. In fact, with just a little attention, you can make a pizza at home that will blow away most any restaurant pie. And it is such an easy, elegant meal — a crisp, chewy slice of pizza with a slice of prosciutto, a glass of white wine, a little green salad — summer heaven! Here’s how to bring that heaven to your own dinner table tonight.