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Lately, like many of us across the country I’ve been thinking about heat. Now, I’m no stranger to intense heat. I’ve been working in front of a pizza oven for over 40 years and I live in Las Vegas where, one day last week, the temperature topped out at 119 degrees. So, let’s just say heat is a big part of my life. As pizza makers and bread bakers, we…Read More…

I’ve been asked for this recipe many times even though only a few of you actually have the sprouted wheat flour but, in the hopes that you will soon acquire some, here’s what to do with it when you get it: make a killer pizza dough.  As I mentioned in earlier posts, this flour is so remarkable that you don’t need a preferment, nor oil, nor sweetener, nada — just…Read More…

Fontina, Prosciutto Cotto and Wild Arugula Pizza While at Pizzeria Basta last fall, Peter challenged Kelly Whitaker to come up with a pizza featuring one of Bel Gioioso’s wonderful cheeses.  Peter chose to have Kelly use their Fontina Cheese.  What Kelly came up with was a delicious Fontina with Prosciutto Cotto and Fresh, Wild Arugula Pizza.  As with anything Kelly makes, it turned out amazing.  You can see the video…Read More…

This is the first in what promises to be an exciting feature on PizzaQuest.com, a series of short personal essays and thought pieces, by many of the people featured in our video webisodes, as well as from other thought leaders in the world of artisanship, culinary and other. These essays are not promotions of the various businesses of the writers but, rather, a peek inside the passion and vision that…Read More…

The Ultimate Pie with Peter ReinhartOctober 16th and 17th The Fire Within http://portablebrickpizzaoven.com/ Please enjoy some of the photos from The Ultimate Pie workshop put on by Joseph Pergolizzi of The Fire Within where Peter was a special guest speaker/chef.  It was an amazing weekend, where Peter came to teach, but also learned from a great group of mobile wood-fired oven pizza operators, as well as home chefs from across…Read More…

Hi everyone, I’m Peter Reinhart, your Pizza Quest guide, and this is our first ever webisode. We’re going to leave this opening segment on the front page for all newcomers to the site, but please feel free to navigate over to the Webisode page if you really want to catch up on all the webisode segments. We’ll continue posting additional webisodes that will take us to some of the stops…Read More…

I want to welcome you to the launch of our updated site, Pizza Quest. You’ll see that at the top of the page it says Pizza Quest with Peter Reinhart and, yes, while I will serve as narrator and primary host, there is a whole team of serious pizza freaks involved in this site. We have been avidly shooting video footage of some our favorite pizzerias — seems like new…Read More…

Hi Folks, Here’s the link to my upcoming Pizza Brunch and book signing on Sept. 10, at Peyton Smith’s wonderful Mission Pizza Napoletana in Winston Salem (listen to the recent audio Pizza Quest podcast of our conversation here).  I hope to see some of you there. https://www.exploretock.com/missionpizzanapoletana/event/431227/pizza-quest-brunch-with-peter-reinhart

Hi Everybody, Here’s a link to the sign-up page for my Summer Pizza Party class, hosted by the Milk Street Cooking School. The tickets are inexpensive ($29.95) PLUS, there’s a 15% discount for readers of this blog if you type in PIZZAPARTY in the code box when you check out. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/summer-pizza-party-with-peter-reinhart-tickets-596913162337  The date is Tuesday, May 23 at 6 PM Eastern. The class runs for an hour and 15 minutes,…Read More…

Hi Everyone, Next Friday, September 18th, I’ll be doing an online pizza class, featuring my Breville Pizzaiolo Oven. I’ll be making the cover pizza from my book, “Perfect Pan Pizza,”  (the Pepperoni Deluxe). I’ll also be showing how to make the high hydration dough used throughout the book and how to do my signature “embedded cheese” technique (a game-changer, for sure!), as well as answering any questions. Scott Wiener will…Read More…