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Webisode Intro #1: Pizza and Obsession

Hi everyone, I’m Peter Reinhart, your Pizza Quest guide, and this is our first ever webisode. We’re going to leave this opening segment on the front page for all newcomers to the site, but please feel free to navigate over to the Webisode page if you really want to catch up on all the webisode segments. We’ll continue posting additional webisodes that will take us to some of the stops…Read More…

“We the Pizza: Slangin’ Pies and Saving Lives” from Philly’s Down North Pizza

Welcome back to Pizza Quest! Muhammad Abdul-Hadi’s and Michael Carter’s new book, “We the Pizza,” just came out this week. They join us from their restaurant, Down North Pizza, in Philadelphia’s Strawberry Hill Neighborhood, to tell us all about it. The subtitle of the book, “Slangin’ Pies and Saving Lives” is really what makes Down North Pizza unique among the many great pizzerias we feature here. The restaurant represents a…Read More…

Joel Kostman, The Locksmith Who Wrote An Underground Classic, “Keys to the City”

Welcome back to Pizza Quest! Joel Kostman helped support his family for over 30 years as a New York City locksmith, but that was just his day job. By night, he was (and still is) a serious writer who channeled his locksmithing adventures into a semi-autobiographical fictional cult classic story collection called, “Keys to the City: Tales of a New York City Locksmith.” The New York Times even called him…Read More…

How U Doin? with the “Other” Eddie Fischer

Welcome back to Pizza Quest! In this episode, we are joined by Eddie Fischer (no, not the famous singer and husband of Debbie Reynolds and father of Carrie Fisher), but the OTHER Eddie Fischer, a Jersey guy, the founder of How U Doin?, a new boys and girls club about to launch near Dallas, Texas. Yes, he and I share a long, shared history of East Coast pizza questing but,…Read More…

Chef David Nayfeld, Che Fico Pizza in Thrive City

Welcome back to Pizza Quest 2025, for a new season with lots of exciting guests, both new and returning!  We kick off the new season with Chef David Nayfeld, chef and owner of a hot new restaurant in the shadow of San Francisco’s dynamic sports complex in an area called Thrift City (the restaurant is located on Warrior Way, lest there be any doubts about his Golden State bona fides). …Read More…

Welcome to 2025! Upcoming classes

Welcome back to Pizza Quest and Happy New Year!! We’ll soon be posting all new podcast interviews but, while we gear up for that, I wanted to let you know about my upcoming Sourdough Fundamentals livestream (aka, Sourdough 101) via The Milk Street Online Cooking School, on January 22nd. This link will take you to the sign up page and you can get a 15% discount by using the code…Read More…

Holiday message to all our followers

Written By Peter Reinhart
Monday, 09 December 2024 Uncategorized

Dear Pizza Quest Followers, The Quest goes on, and we’ve enjoyed expanding the scope of our journey with you our fellow Questers. Thank you so much for your support and appreciative feedback for the diverse variety of guests and topics of this past year. We’re in the process now of lining up a unique and exciting array of guests for the 2025 season, and plan to return in early January…Read More…

Your Next Mission, Should You Choose to Accept it, is to Grow From Older to Elder, with our Guest, Dr. Marc Cooper

Welcome back to Pizza Quest!   Once again, the operative word for this episode is Quest, as we welcome author, mentor, and game changer, Dr. Marc B. Cooper. Marc’s mission and personal quest is to restore a sense of meaning and purpose for those of us who fall into the “senior citizen” bracket (but, really, it’s a timeless mission for all of us regardless of age). The title of his…Read More…

Pizza Quest Meets the Rug Quest with Author David Amadio

Welcome back to Pizza Quest! As most of you know by now, for us it’s as much about the Quest as it is about the Pizza, and this week’s guest, author David Amadio, takes us on a deep dive into the quest of his father, Jerry Amadio, a master carpet installer and rug expert, who is just as dedicated to his own craft as any pizzaiolo that I know is…Read More…

Pizza Quest Goes Pasta-Questing with Fatto a Mano’s Marco Pacelli

Welcome back to Pizza Quest!      Marco Pacelli is doing something wonderful in Redondo Beach, California at his pasta shop, Fatto a Mano’. After a lifetime of working for Michelin-level fine dining restaurants, he and his wife, Arlene, decided to open a small pasta and Roman-style pizza shop showcasing the foods inspired by Marco’s Aunt Concettina, the woman who shaped his culinary passion during the summers he spent with her…Read More…

Chef Tandy Wilson Creates His Happy Place at Nashville’s Legendary City Place

     Chef Tandy Wilson is an important player in the Nashville/Germantown culinary renaissance. Hear how this classically trained chef paid his dues with the big guys and then returned to his roots to create a signature style all his own (and winning a James Beard Award in the process, while making killer pizzas), in this latest episode of Pizza Quest.

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Pizza Quest is a site dedicated to the exploration of artisanship in all forms, wherever we find it, but especially through the literal and metaphorical image of pizza. As we share our own quest for the perfect pizza we invite all of you to join us and share your journeys too. We have discovered that you never know what engaging roads and side paths will reveal themselves on this quest, but we do know that there are many kindred spirits out there, passionate artisans, doing all sorts of amazing things. These are the stories we want to discover, and we invite you to jump on the proverbial bus and join us on this, our never ending pizza quest.

Peter’s Books

American Pie
Artisan Breads Every Day
The Bread Bakers Apprentice
Brother Junipers Bread Book
Crust and Crumb
Whole Grain Breads

...and other books by Peter Reinhart, available on Amazon.com