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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.

Fiore Tedesco and the Golden Goose

Welcome back to Pizza Quest! Chef Fiore Tedesco was born completely deaf and couldn’t hear anything until he was five years old, when his hearing was miraculously recovered through a risky series of operations. He made up for lost time after that, retraining himself to not only hear, speak, and expand his vocabulary, but to also play drums in a rock band and then travel the world with his bandmates….Read More…

Pizza on the Delta, with Guests Marisol and Rory Doyle of Lena’s Pizza and Bagels

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…

Leo Spizzirri is back — “The Greatest Guy You Never Knew”

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…

Brigit Binns, author of Rottenkid, On Surviving A Crazy Hollywood Childhood

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…

Pizza Quest: From Chef to Teacher, Alyssa and Andrew Wilen of Alyssa’s Kitchen

Written By Peter Reinhart
Thursday, 19 September 2024 Pizza Quest Webisodes

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…

Audrey Kelly — Another American Gold Medalist

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…

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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.

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