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. 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…

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…

Welcome back to Pizza Quest. In this episode we welcome back Paul Tiffany, director of product engineering at Lloyd Pans, to update us on the latest new pan pizza products and to explain the unique manufacturing process that allows Lloyd Pans to respond and customize pans so quickly for the pizza and other food service industries. He also shows us a very cool new product for making handheld Detroit-style pizzas,…Read More…

Welcome back to Pizza Quest! Our guest in this episode is long-time world pizza champion, Joe Carlucci. So, you might ask, how did a nice New York area kid end up running an iconic, destination pizzeria in Madison, Alabama?  It’s a long story and one best told by Joe himself, including the many life lessons that allowed him to crash and burn (and rise from the ashes) many times on…Read More…

Welcome back to Pizza Quest! Anthony Mangieri is one of our favorite guests and now that his NYC restaurant, Una Pizza Napoletana, has been recently anointed by one poll as the “best pizzeria in the world,” this is a timely return visit. In this episode, Anthony tells us all about his new line of frozen pizzas under the name Genio Della Pizza, and how he managed to create and package…Read More…