{"id":7207,"date":"2023-12-01T09:11:37","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T14:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/?p=7207"},"modified":"2023-12-01T13:03:25","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T18:03:25","slug":"pizza-quest-with-guest-blaine-parker-of-free-the-pizza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/pizza-quest-with-guest-blaine-parker-of-free-the-pizza\/","title":{"rendered":"Pizza Quest with guest Blaine Parker, of &#8220;Free the Pizza&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>Welcome back to <em>Pizza Quest<\/em>!<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In this episode, I talk with <strong>Blaine Parker,<\/strong> the creator and host of the website <i><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethepizza.com\/\">Free the Pizza<\/a>,<\/strong><\/i> 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethepizza.com\/\">site<\/a> to chronicle his journey. He also started a <i>Pizza Prousti<\/i> thread <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethepizza.com\/pizza-memories.html\">here<\/a> inspired by Marcel Proust&#8217;s famous book, <i>&#8220;Remembrance of Things Past,&#8221;<\/i>\u00a0(aka <i>&#8220;In Search of Lost Time&#8221;<\/i>) in which I contributed a short essay of my fondest pizza memory. 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