Pizza Quest Webisodes

Welcome back to Pizza Quest!     Pizza and bagels in the Mississippi Delta might have once been considered a non sequitur, but Marisol and Rory Doyle have put the small town of Cleveland, Mississippi on the global pizza map, thanks to a recent NY Times article featuring their destination wood-fired pizzas. What started as a once-a-week bagel cart has grown into a local treasure and destination pizza cafe. Hear…Read More…

Welcome back to Pizza Quest, and welcome back to one of our long time favorites, pizza master Leo Spizzirri. When we first featured Leo on Pizza Quest about seven years ago we introduced him as the “Greatest guy you never knew,” but a lot has changed since then. His ever-present short reels on Instagram and feature length YouTube instructionals, the many demos he performs at numerous pizza and food conferences,…Read More…

Pizza Quest with Peter Reinhart, with Guest Author of “Rottenkid,” Brigit Binns       Welcome back to Pizza Quest! Brigit Binns first appeared on Pizza Quest a few years ago when we filmed some cooking segments with her and her husband, actor Casey Biggs, at the Forno Bravo Wood-Fired Oven Expo in Salinas, California in 2017  (see us in action here at: https://www.fornobravo.com/pizzaquest/new-webisode-brigit-binns-cooking-fire/      Brigit and Casey have also…Read More…

Welcome back to Pizza Quest! In this episode we step away from pizza for a moment and focus on the craft of culinary teaching for the everyday person.  I first met Chef Alyssa Gorelick about 15 years ago when she was at the helm of a very innovative vegetarian restaurant called Fern. She was young and single and super talented.  Fast forward to today and she is now Alyssa Wilen,…Read More…

Welcome back to Pizza Quest. We are in the midst of American greatness on the International pizza stage. First, we recently had Caputo Cup champion Siler Chapman on with us and, now, his compatriot and fellow member of the US Pizza Champions team, Audrey Kelly is here to tell us about her own championship gold medal in the pan pizza category at the Caputo Cup.  Audrey has been on Pizza…Read More…

Welcome back to a new season of Pizza Quest!          We’ve got a number of great interviews lined up and will be posting often. As always, these will be as much about the quest as they are about the pizza. As a reminder, please write to me at Peter@pizzaquest.com if any of you would like to come on our show to discuss your own quest, whether in…Read More…

Hi Everyone, We’ve been busy recording new interviews for the upcoming season, which will launch soon. Meanwhile, I wanted to bring back some of the fun webisodes from the past, especially for those of you who are new to Pizza Quest. Our friend Tony Gemignani is all over the news these days, having just thrown the world’s biggest pizza party (simultaneously, on a number of Princess cruise ships), opening his…Read More…

Welcome back to Pizza Quest!  We are joined this week by Charles Wekselbaum, owner and head salumeriest for Charlito’s Cocina, makers of fine charcuterie. Is it salumi or salami? We’ll find out, as Charles guides Peter through a tasting of three of his most popular Spanish-influenced products, and explains how he transforms fresh meat products into cured and fermented dried meats in which his goal is to evoke the full…Read More…

Welcome back to Pizza Quest! This week’s guest is a long time friend of mine (we go back to 7th grade together, circa 1963), Tim Lorsch, Nashville musician/sideman, who has created a one-man performance piece called, The Suitcase.  The show was inspired when Tim unexpectedly received an old suitcase that had formerly belonged to his great uncle before being sent to Auschwitz, where he was killed by the Nazi’s. The…Read More…

Hi All and Welcome Back, My brother, Harry, was with me the day we discovered Pizzeria Beddia about eight years ago and then, together, we watched as Joe Beddia rocketed to superstardom in the pizza world (not because of us, but our timing was pretty good, as we were just ahead of the masses, reinforcing our belief in our own early detection radar skills about these kind of things). So,…Read More…