Pizza Quest with Peter Reinhart

Sarah Minnick has emerged as one of the important new voices in the artisan pizza movement. She brings a chef’s sensitivities, an artist’s insight (she originally went to Rhode Island School of Design), and a down to earth perspective to everything she makes at her destination restaurant, Lovely’s 50-50, where she has grown a passionate following. In this interview you’ll learn more about her and her vision for pizza and…Read More…

Floriana Pastore, as I learned from Scott this week, is an Italian pizzaiola superstar. She has now opened a mobile pizzeria, Signora Pizza, in Las Vegas, where she makes award winning Neapolitan pizza (you can check out her Facebook page here). Scott recently added her new box to his world record collection, and it’s a good 0ne, full of thoughtful elements (such as an inside the box reflective panel to…Read More…

Just in time for Halloween, a whole show devoted to exploring the real zombies in our midst. Dr. Athena Aktipis is a professor at Arizona State University, the founder of the Zombie Apocalypse Medicine Show, and she knows what she’s talking about. You will learn how little you know about real zombies in our midst when you watch this fascinating conversation. I’ll say no more (a zombie is trying to…Read More…

Ed Levine is the founder of the most influential food website in the digital universe, Serious Eats. He is also one of our finest mavens when it comed to pizza (who can forget his seminal book, Pizza: A Slice of Heaven) and the mentor and launching pad avatar for many important food writers, such as Kenj-Lopez Alt, and Adam Kuban, (Adam will be featured here in an upcoming episode of…Read More…

Scott is back and, this time, he unveils a new box that he hasn’t even opened from its shipping box — we get to see it at same moment as he sees it! And what a winner this one is, straight from Berkeley, CA, with a flashback to the ’60’s and all that that era implies. A special thanks to Zack Wilson for sending this box to Scott! (Anyone else…Read More…

We learned in an earlier episode with Brooklyn pie master Paulie Gee that, when he decided to grant rights to others to use his name and menu model, he wasn’t going to follow typical franchise templates. He was mainly looking for ways to empower other talented pizza makers to be able to get into the game and achieve their own success. Enter Derrick Tung, who took the hand-off from Paulie…Read More…

I don’t want to ruin the surprise of this week’s box, so I will simply ask you to watch Scott tell us the mind-bending story about a simple pizza box from Costa Rica. The operative word in this week’s episode is meta. You’ll see what I mean when you watch this week’s Pizza Box of the Week with Scott Wiener.

Stephanie Swane sits atop a unique publishing empire based in Bellevue, Washington.  Modernist Cuisine (https://modernistcuisine.com/ ) is responsible for some of the most innovative, disruptive culinary books of the past decade, including their landmark 50 pound, game-changing, 5-volume collection called Modernist Cuisine. It was followed, a few years later, by the equally weighty 5-vulume, Modernist Bread and, sometime soon, we expect an announcement of the publishing date for the eagerly…Read More…

Condiments are essential foods for many of us. What would we do without mustard, ketchup, salsa, Tabasco, or Texas Pete, or Frank’s Hot Sauce? We sort of take them for granted and assume they’ve been around forever — which they haven’t — but during the past few years we (and by “we” I mean our tribe of fellow pizza freaks) bore first hand witness to the emergence a new “essential”…Read More…

Just ahead of Halloween, Scott has brought us one of the most innovative pizza boxes ever — all the way from New Zealand and a place called, yes, Hell Pizza. This box is called Zombies From Hell. and, as you will see, opens into a virtual reality portal and interactive zombie fighting game (I can barely believe I’m writing these words). And, stick around, because after blowing your mind with…Read More…