Peter's Blog

Today is the last day of our photo shoot and we have only three shots left to take but time is running out, so I can’t elaborate on last night’s blow out at Tony’s Pizza Napoletana (how could we not go there after spending the last two months in webisode world with all those Tony’s videos?). However, I’ll post more later this weekend, when things settle down. We were in…Read More…

Wed. We’re halfway through the photo shoot and have come with some great shots and lots of product to bring to Omnivore tonight at 6 PM. There’s always something going into or coming out of the oven, eventually being styled by Karen Shinto into a composition that Leo can assess and light for the camera. The rest of us gather around and offer suggestions or ooohhs and aahhh’s and then…Read More…

Here I am in San Francisco, shooting the photos for the upcoming book on Gluten-Free baking. I took a few photos of our team, hard at work, baking, shooting and tweaking the book photos (the “beauty shots” as they’re called), and matching the copy to the photos. We’re having a ball! Last night we had dinner at one of my favorite SF attractions, The Ferry Terminal Market (more on that…Read More…

I’ve been getting a lot of e-mails recently asking when I’ll be back on the road doing what is called “travel teaching.” It is something I love to do, teaching short classes at small cooking schools, and look forward to the next chance to do more classes on pizza and bread. I get requests to come to Mexico, Brazil, Panama, and even India, Korea, and China, though it’s tricky for…Read More…

On Saturday morning I awoke with a deep sense of satisfaction and appreciation. “The Big Reveal” had gone about as perfectly as possible, albeit with a few mini-dramas such as “Will the dough show up in time?” or “Will I be arrested for taking my glass of Birra Basta outside the Beer Garden and onto the sidewalk?” Of course, as I mentioned in my previous posting, everything just fell into…Read More…

Reminder Note: The blog text is by Peter and the photos and captions are Brad’s. Enjoy! Yes, the pizza and the beer were each, individually, everything we had hoped for; unique, delicious, memorable, and even the difficult logistics were falling into place. The mobile wood-fired oven just barely fit into the small space at the curb by the stage door of the Summit Beer Garden, a polka music band was…Read More…

Note: Blog text by Peter Reinhart; Photos and captions by Brad English Okay, so we were already full of great Denver pizza from both Marco’s Coal-Fired Pizzeria, and also Brava Pizzeria della Strada. Now it was our turn to make pizza, out on the sidewalk of 19th St., by the stage door of The Summit Beer Garden, a music hall that was hosting number of bands and events in the…Read More…

In my last post I wrote of our visits to Brava Pizzeria Della Strada, and also to Marco’s Coal-Fired Pizzeria, both very near to where The Big Reveal took place. Even without the Big Reveal, though, the trip would have been successful because of these other two places. We were able to capture some great footage at both and will, eventually, be able to post it here as webisodes but,…Read More…

  We’d been building up to this moment for so long it seemed surreal when it actually all came together. It all started when a flash went off in Brad’s head a year ago while we were filming a segment with Kelly Whitaker in Boulder, at his Pizzeria Basta, and Alan Henkin, Kelly’s business partner and the beverage director at Basta, turned us on to some amazing beer from a…Read More…

As I prepare to head out to Denver for what I referred to last week as “The Big Reveal,” I want to share this week’s Peter’s Blog with our correspondent, Nick Birkby, a baker and beer maker in South Africa. The timing is perfect, as Nick has been doing a lot of experimentation lately with beer malts in pizza dough, which is one of the keys to our Challenge Pizza…Read More…