Pizza Quest with Peter Reinhart

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 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…

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…

Welcome Back to Pizza Quest, We’re reloading for an all new season of podcasts and conversations with a whole slew of interesting folks who are each on his or her own own quest for purpose and meaning. Sometimes it’s through pizza which is, of course, our primary metaphor, but we keep learning during these many years of posting that it’s the quest that binds us all together as kindred spirits,…Read More…