Pizza Quest Globe

Welcome to Pizza Quest!

Written By Peter Reinhart
Thursday, 14 October 2010 Pizza Quest Info

Peter (with a Grandma pizza) at Umberto’s in Long Island

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 ones are opening on a regular basis, so this promises to be a long quest.

We’ll be posting webisode segments of our travels, to give you a taste of our search for the perfect pizza and to introduce you to some of the interesting people we’ve met along the way. You’ll notice that not all of the webisodes will be about pizza, as we met many artisans who are only indirectly related to pizza, and some who have nothing at all to do with pizza but who share that same obsessive

intensity, a fire in their bellies, that we found among pizza freaks.  If you’re new to Pizza Quest, it’s a good idea to start with the first webisode as an introduction.

In addition to the webisodes, we’ll post instructional videos from time to time, photos from our quests, and we’ll also post thoughtful articles from some of the featured performers of the webisodes as well as from other friends and noteworthy contributors. There is also a members Forum section where all of us can interact and share our obsessions. As it says in our Vision Statement, this site is about more than pizza (but certainly it is about pizza!), but also what pizza represents about us, about the world, and how similar a quest for the perfect pizza is to a quest for quality of all kinds. We use the word artisanship to define that level of quality, and we plan to explore artisanship of all types, yes, through the lens of pizza, but also for its value in our personal journeys of self-discovery.

The site will grow as more of you join us. We encourage you to send it to others, post the videos or link them to your own blogs, and join the conversation. We promise to keep streaming interesting things to you on a regular basis, as fast as it comes in, and look forward to you streaming things back to us. I will provide ongoing blog commentary to accompany the webisodes and recipes, as well as news and updates.

A personal note of thanks to our launch sponsors, Bel Gioioso Cheese and Forno Bravo (yes, I have one of their wood-fired ovens in my backyard — what fun!!).

Also, thank you to Cary Steiner, who took the photo of me at Umberto’s in Queens (and introduced me to Umberto’s Grandmother pie–a local legend, as many in Queens and beyond know) , and who, along with his wife Lillian, have a wonderful pizza blog at www.passion-4-pizza.com (details in the Sites We Like section).

Finally, I want to thank FornoBravo.com for being our web development partner and host site. We couldn’t think of a more kindred site and company to partner with and, without the technical internet prowess of the Forno Bravo team, I know I could never have conceived of and executed such a dynamic site. We think you’re going to enjoy the ride and hope you will come back again and again–and bring your friends.

 

Till the next time,
May Your Pizzas All Be Perfect!

Peter

Comments

Contessa

Hi Peter…great web site. I stumbled on it via a post from Joe Bastianich on Twitter. Hope to see you soon, it’s been too long between slices!

peter

Always great to hear from old and new friends. Thanks Cary and Lillian for clearing up the Umberto’s question. Cindy, thanks for writing–I still remember our “pizza hunt” to Santarpio’s, near Boston’s Logan Airport–we had a great anchovie pizza (they explained to us that secret was to put the anchovies under the cheese, not on top, so that they would sort of melt into the pizza instead of getting all dry and leathery like at many other places). And the homemade sausage pizza was pretty memorable too. As we so often say here, the Quest never ends….

Michael R Pena

Peter Thank you for the insigft and great videos.Taste-e-tunes.com locates Music Relevent to pizzerias. Songs about what we do sell pizza. thanks again “Food …at the speed of sound”

John R. Allen

If I may, I’d like to plug one of my favorite Pizza places, The Great Plains Sauce & Dough Company in Ames, Iowa (http://www.greatplainspizza.com/menu.html). They have six choices of delicious crust, and honey at the tables, a way to turn the edge of your crust into an instant dessert!

Rick

Thank you Peter! I just found this webist. Have been reading American Pie and love it. we have an Italian Market in Dunwoody GA called E48th Street Market. I tried some hot Cappo last weekend bas on your suggestion (pg 166) and absolutely loved it. The crust is still a work in progress but I will keep practicing.
Thank you again Peter

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Vision Statement

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