Hi Everyone,

We have some fun, new and important stuff to share this week.  I'll be posting on Tuesday my first report on the Asheville Bread Festival, which was a blast, including some comments on the most amazing flour I've ever worked with!

On Thursday, we'll post the second in our new webisode series filmed at Pizzeria Defina and the Gastro District in San Francisco. We call this segment, A Cappucino and Pizza Obsession. It features Craig Stoll, Anthony Strong and me carrying on around our cups of espresso about the obsessive passion that defines what this quest is all about. You won't want to miss it.

And on Friday, we welcome back John Arena with another thoughtful Guest Column, this time on the important subject of counterfeit "authentic" Italian products. We look forward to your comments on this one.

As always, lots more still to come!!!

Hi Everyone,

This week we travel to San Francisco to meet James Beard award winning chef Craig Stoll, owner of Pizzeria Delfina (right next door to his wonderful, award winning osteria, Delfina). We'll also meet Pizzeria Delfina's head pizzaiolo Anthony Strong, as passionate a pizza freak as I've ever met. In this week's webisode segment Anthony will show us how he makes Delfina's distinctive Margherita pizza. Over the next few weeks we'll continue to explore the many aspects of their Mission District neighborhood, known as The Gastro, with Craig, Anthony and a few other residents of the Gastro. You'll love this series, which begins on Thursday!

I'll be posting another Peter's Blog entry on Tuesday and, on Friday,  a short explanation and instructional on the stretch and fold method that has been revolutionizing bread baking these past few years.

We'll be taking a week off from Guest Columns to give you a chance to catch up with the many thoughtful pieces already posted from our contributors. If you have posted comments in the past and did not see them on the site, we think we solved this technical issue and all viewers should now be able to post comments. If you still don't see them, write to us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and let us know.

Hope to see some of you at this Saturday's Seventh Annual Asheville Bread Festival.

Have a great week!

Next week we will begin to move up the coast, leaving Pizzeria Mozza in Los Angeles for the San Francisco foodie district known as "The Gastro."  There, we'll focus in on the fabulous Pizzeria Delfina, owned by James Beard Award winning chef, Craig Stoll and his head pizzaiolo, Anthony Strong, as well as a few other food lovers' surprises all found within one block of each other. The first segment in this new webisode series will post on Thursday, March 31st.

This week, however, we want to take a little break from the video webisodes and reflect back on the past two months and give all our new viewers and members a chance to catch up with the journey. So, on Tuesday I'll be posting some reflections on Peter's Blog.

Of course, we'll also post a new recipe on Wednesday, and a new Guest Column from our friend Joseph Pergolizzi, founder of the mobile wood fired oven company, The Fire Within, on Friday.

As always, the journey keeps unfolding....

Hi Everyone,

My Yahoo e-mail was hacked last night with that scam about being robbed in London and needing cash. I'm using this site now to try to reach as many of you as possible who may have gotten this phony scam with my address. Please DO NOT respond to it--it hijacked my whole e-history and I can't even use my yahoo e-mail to warn folks, so I'm doing it this way and through my other social media. Thanks for your understanding and patience.

Sincerely,

Peter