Pizza Quest with guest Blaine Parker, of “Free the Pizza”
Written By Peter Reinhart
Friday, 01 December 2023
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Welcome back to Pizza Quest!
In this episode, I talk with Blaine Parker, the creator and host of the website Free the Pizza, a site devoted to the unending quest to make pizza in a home oven as good as those from a pizzeria. Can it be done? Blaine says yes, and has written an entire book showing readers how, as well as posting humorous essays regularly on his site to chronicle his journey. He also started a Pizza Prousti thread here inspired by Marcel Proust’s famous book, “Remembrance of Things Past,” (aka “In Search of Lost Time”) in which I contributed a short essay of my fondest pizza memory. Proust wrote over 1,000 pages triggered by the taste memory of one Madeleine cookie, so Blaine might have to collect 1,000 one-page vignettes like mine to get close to Proust’s accomplishment.
Yes, yet another quest….
Join us on this week’s episode of Pizza Quest in our search for the perfect Pizza Prousti….
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