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The Best Way to Improve Your Skills? Teach!

Written By John Arena
Friday, 21 October 2011 Guest Bloggers

  Lately I’ve been thinking about the student teacher relationship. For the past few weeks I have been training a friend who wants to open an authentic New York style pizzeria in Seoul. James Yu is not your average pizza guy. A native of South Korea, he graduated from Auburn with a degree in Chemical Engineering and worked in the US for several years. Along the way James fell in…Read More…

Joseph’s Provolone Pizza

Written By Peter Reinhart
Wednesday, 19 October 2011 Video Recipe Demos

As a special welcome to The Fire Within, our newest sponsor, here is a video we shot last October at an oven owners conference hosted by Joseph Pergolizzi, the owner and founder of The Fire Within.  We shot a number of these instructional videos at the end of the conference with various attendees, asking each of the oven owners what kind of pizza they wanted to make, and Joseph chose…Read More…

Cold Fermented Natural Levain Dough

Written By Teresa Greenway
Tuesday, 18 October 2011 Written Recipes

For those of you who like to bake with sourdough, I have a pizza crust that you will find intriguing.  It is handy to use dough which is already fermenting in your refrigerator, and to whip up a pizza for dinner.  Big Bear’s Bread (BBB) is such dough. It is a popular, long fermented type of sourdough bread and is a good choice for pizza dough. The formula for BBB…Read More…

Peter’s Blog, October 18th

Written By Peter Reinhart
Tuesday, 18 October 2011 Peter's Blog

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…

Coming Attractions, Week of October 17th

Things get back to normal this week now that we’ve reported on our whirlwind trip to Denver and are settling back in. Our usual schedule is: Tuesday: Peter’s Blog Wednesday: Instructional or Recipes Thursday: Webisode or other videos Friday: Guest Column We don’t always have something every week for each of these sections, and we’re putting together our content now for this week, so keep checking back to see what’s…Read More…

Flying Pizza with Tony Gemignani

Written By Peter Reinhart
Thursday, 13 October 2011 Webisodes

You’re going to love this one! Tony schools me on the art of dough tossing, both for function and for acrobatics. As those who have made my recipes know, my doughs tend to be too wet and fragile for tossing so I always use flour on the back of my hands, with my thumbs on the edges, to rotate it around. Tony’s dough, which is firmer and not sticky, was…Read More…

Life After “The Big Reveal”

Written By Peter Reinhart
Wednesday, 12 October 2011 Peter's Blog

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…

The Big Reveal, Part Four (finale)

Written By Peter Reinhart
Saturday, 08 October 2011 Peter's Blog

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…

The Big Reveal, Part Three

Written By Peter Reinhart
Friday, 07 October 2011 Peter's Blog

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…

The Big Reveal, Part Two

Written By Peter Reinhart
Thursday, 06 October 2011 Peter's Blog

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…

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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.

Peter’s Books

American Pie
Artisan Breads Every Day
The Bread Bakers Apprentice
Brother Junipers Bread Book
Crust and Crumb
Whole Grain Breads

...and other books by Peter Reinhart, available on Amazon.com