Webisodes

Welcome back to Pizza Quest!  It’s been a while since we’ve caught up with our two most recurring and most popular guests, pizza legends John Arena (Metro Pizza in Las Vegas) and Brian Spangler (Apizza Scholl’s, Portland, OR). Not only have they both been there and done it all, but they are also trusted mentors to many pizza operator newbies and, over these past years on Pizza Quest, have served…Read More…

Welcome back to Pizza Quest, Our guests this week are the co-hosts of the popular Pizza Pod Party Podcast, Arthur Bovino and Alfred Schulz. They recently completed their first season of 52 episodes with a star-studded roster of  guests including Mo Rocca, Andrew Zimmern, Tony Dukoupil, Guy Raz (“How I Built This”), Candace Bushnell (yes, who wrote “Sex in the City”), George R.R. Martin (“Game of Thrones,” anyone?), Susan Orlean…Read More…

Welcome back to Pizza Quest! In this episode, we welcome Brett McKay, the founder of the immensely popular website/newsletter/podcast, The Art of Manliness. For the past fifteen+ years Brett, along with his wife Kate, have been on their own quest to explore every aspect of what it means to be a man — really, a human — at this particular time in history. Their site has clearly struck a chord,…Read More…

Welcome Back to Pizza Quest! This week we welcome fellow podcaster Jimmy Carbone, host of HRN’s Beer Sessions podcast. Jimmy has been hosting his “convivial ale salon” on HRN (Heritage Radio Network) from the network’s earliest days, beginning about 15 years ago.  Peter recently was a guest of Jimmy’s on Beer Sessions, talking about the pizza/beer connection, so this time Jimmy returns the favor and joins us here to share…Read More…

Welcome back to Pizza Quest. Mark Todd is a recurring guest here on Pizza Quest because, one, I love cheese (every kind!), and two, he’s so interesting and makes cheese interesting too as he demystifies this magical, fermented, “spoiled” solid milk so that we can enjoy it in all it’s mighty nuances and permutations. In past episodes with Mark, we’ve explored stretched cheeses in the “pasta filata” category, cheddar cheeses,…Read More…

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…

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…

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…

     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.

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…