{"id":7313,"date":"2024-04-05T11:11:32","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T15:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/?p=7313"},"modified":"2024-04-05T16:31:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T20:31:48","slug":"pizza-quest-chef-mike-friedmans-pizza-and-other-jewish-italian-american-tributes-in-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/pizza-quest-chef-mike-friedmans-pizza-and-other-jewish-italian-american-tributes-in-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"Pizza Quest: Chef Mike Friedman&#8217;s Pizza and Other Jewish Italian American Tributes in DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Welcome back to <em>Pizza Quest<\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chef Michael Friedman grew up in a New York area Jewish American household (in Westfield, NJ, to be specific) and, like me, was nourished by lots of Chinese and Italian food. Also like me, he attended Boston University&#8217;s School of Communications, so we share a kindred spirit connectivity. After paying his dues in fine dining restaurants around the world (including stints with Rich Melman&#8217;s <em>Lettuce Entertain You<\/em> restaurant group, as well as with Chef Marc Vetri in Philadelphia, and also with Chef Jose Andres), Mike started his own restaurant group in the Washington DC area and, for the past ten years, has garnered awards and recognition of his own. <strong><em>All-Purpose (A-P) Pizza Shop<\/em><\/strong> , in its three locations, pays tribute to the east coast pizzas and slice shops of his youth, and joins <em>Red Hen<\/em>, and<em> Aventino Roman Cucina<\/em>, as part of his ever-growing restaurant empire. Hear all about Chef Mike&#8217;s quest to bring the past into the present, and the culinary vision that drives him forward in this new episode of<strong> Pizza Quest<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pizza Quest - PQS4E29: Chef Mike Friedman&#039;s Pizza and Other Jewish Italian American Tributes in DC\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uG827jG-PnU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to Pizza Quest! Chef Michael Friedman grew up in a New York area Jewish American household (in Westfield, NJ, to be specific) and, like me, was nourished by lots of Chinese and Italian food. Also like me, he attended Boston University&#8217;s School of Communications, so we share a kindred spirit connectivity. After paying his dues in fine dining restaurants around the world (including stints with Rich Melman&#8217;s Lettuce&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/pizza-quest-chef-mike-friedmans-pizza-and-other-jewish-italian-american-tributes-in-dc\/\" title=\"Read More About Pizza Quest: Chef Mike Friedman&#8217;s Pizza and Other Jewish Italian American Tributes in DC\" class=\"btn btnred\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":348,"featured_media":7317,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,708],"tags":[1067,1068,1066,1065,33,41,114,1069],"class_list":["post-7313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-s1-pizza-quest-webisodes","category-pizza-talk","tag-all-purpose-pizza-shop","tag-aventino","tag-chef-michael-friedman","tag-mike-friedman","tag-peter-reinhart","tag-pizza","tag-pizza-quest","tag-red-hen"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pizza Quest: Chef Mike Friedman&#039;s Pizza and Other Jewish Italian American Tributes in DC - Pizza Quest with Peter Reinhart<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/pizza-quest-chef-mike-friedmans-pizza-and-other-jewish-italian-american-tributes-in-dc\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pizza Quest: Chef Mike Friedman&#039;s Pizza and Other Jewish Italian American Tributes in DC - Pizza Quest with Peter Reinhart\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Welcome back to Pizza Quest! Chef Michael Friedman grew up in a New York area Jewish American household (in Westfield, NJ, to be specific) and, like me, was nourished by lots of Chinese and Italian food. Also like me, he attended Boston University&#8217;s School of Communications, so we share a kindred spirit connectivity. After paying his dues in fine dining restaurants around the world (including stints with Rich Melman&#8217;s Lettuce...Read More...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/pizza-quest-chef-mike-friedmans-pizza-and-other-jewish-italian-american-tributes-in-dc\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pizza Quest with Peter Reinhart\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PizzaQuestFornoBravo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-04-05T15:11:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-04-05T20:31:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/PQ-S4e29-Mike-Friedman-1024x492.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"492\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Peter Reinhart\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Peter Reinhart\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/pizza-quest-chef-mike-friedmans-pizza-and-other-jewish-italian-american-tributes-in-dc\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/pizza-quest-chef-mike-friedmans-pizza-and-other-jewish-italian-american-tributes-in-dc\/\",\"name\":\"Pizza Quest: Chef Mike Friedman's Pizza and Other Jewish Italian American Tributes in DC - Pizza Quest with Peter Reinhart\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2024-04-05T15:11:32+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-04-05T20:31:48+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/#\/schema\/person\/b021fe8612f880c02daed63b08fc5d29\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/pizza-quest-chef-mike-friedmans-pizza-and-other-jewish-italian-american-tributes-in-dc\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/pizza-quest-chef-mike-friedmans-pizza-and-other-jewish-italian-american-tributes-in-dc\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/pizza-quest-chef-mike-friedmans-pizza-and-other-jewish-italian-american-tributes-in-dc\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Pizza Quest: Chef Mike Friedman&#8217;s Pizza and Other Jewish Italian American Tributes in DC\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/\",\"name\":\"Pizza Quest with Peter Reinhart\",\"description\":\"A journey of self-discovery through pizza.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/#\/schema\/person\/b021fe8612f880c02daed63b08fc5d29\",\"name\":\"Peter Reinhart\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5e372605bc7a3b559161ec0d9ebb2d0f?s=96&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5e372605bc7a3b559161ec0d9ebb2d0f?s=96&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Peter Reinhart\"},\"description\":\"Peter Reinhart is a baking instructor at Johnson &amp; Wales University. He was the co-founder of the legendary Brother Juniper\u2019s Bakery in Sonoma, California, and is the author of ten books on bread baking and pizza, including Brother Juniper\u2019s Bread Book and the modern classic The Bread Baker\u2019s Apprentice, which was named cookbook of the year in 2002 by both the James Beard Foundation and the International Association of Culinary Professionals. He is also the author of American Pie: My Search for the Perfect Pizza. He lives with his wife, Susan, in Charlotte, North Carolina.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/author\/peter-reinhart\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Pizza Quest: Chef Mike Friedman's Pizza and Other Jewish Italian American Tributes in DC - Pizza Quest with Peter Reinhart","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/pizza-quest-chef-mike-friedmans-pizza-and-other-jewish-italian-american-tributes-in-dc\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Pizza Quest: Chef Mike Friedman's Pizza and Other Jewish Italian American Tributes in DC - Pizza Quest with Peter Reinhart","og_description":"Welcome back to Pizza Quest! Chef Michael Friedman grew up in a New York area Jewish American household (in Westfield, NJ, to be specific) and, like me, was nourished by lots of Chinese and Italian food. Also like me, he attended Boston University&#8217;s School of Communications, so we share a kindred spirit connectivity. After paying his dues in fine dining restaurants around the world (including stints with Rich Melman&#8217;s Lettuce...Read More...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/pizza-quest-chef-mike-friedmans-pizza-and-other-jewish-italian-american-tributes-in-dc\/","og_site_name":"Pizza Quest with Peter Reinhart","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PizzaQuestFornoBravo\/","article_published_time":"2024-04-05T15:11:32+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-04-05T20:31:48+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1024,"height":492,"url":"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/PQ-S4e29-Mike-Friedman-1024x492.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Peter Reinhart","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Peter Reinhart","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/pizza-quest-chef-mike-friedmans-pizza-and-other-jewish-italian-american-tributes-in-dc\/","url":"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/pizza-quest-chef-mike-friedmans-pizza-and-other-jewish-italian-american-tributes-in-dc\/","name":"Pizza Quest: Chef Mike Friedman's Pizza and Other Jewish Italian American Tributes in DC - Pizza Quest with Peter Reinhart","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/#website"},"datePublished":"2024-04-05T15:11:32+00:00","dateModified":"2024-04-05T20:31:48+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/#\/schema\/person\/b021fe8612f880c02daed63b08fc5d29"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/pizza-quest-chef-mike-friedmans-pizza-and-other-jewish-italian-american-tributes-in-dc\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/pizza-quest-chef-mike-friedmans-pizza-and-other-jewish-italian-american-tributes-in-dc\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/pizza-quest-chef-mike-friedmans-pizza-and-other-jewish-italian-american-tributes-in-dc\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Pizza Quest: Chef Mike Friedman&#8217;s Pizza and Other Jewish Italian American Tributes in DC"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/","name":"Pizza Quest with Peter Reinhart","description":"A journey of self-discovery through pizza.","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/#\/schema\/person\/b021fe8612f880c02daed63b08fc5d29","name":"Peter Reinhart","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5e372605bc7a3b559161ec0d9ebb2d0f?s=96&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5e372605bc7a3b559161ec0d9ebb2d0f?s=96&r=g","caption":"Peter Reinhart"},"description":"Peter Reinhart is a baking instructor at Johnson &amp; Wales University. He was the co-founder of the legendary Brother Juniper\u2019s Bakery in Sonoma, California, and is the author of ten books on bread baking and pizza, including Brother Juniper\u2019s Bread Book and the modern classic The Bread Baker\u2019s Apprentice, which was named cookbook of the year in 2002 by both the James Beard Foundation and the International Association of Culinary Professionals. He is also the author of American Pie: My Search for the Perfect Pizza. He lives with his wife, Susan, in Charlotte, North Carolina.","url":"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/author\/peter-reinhart\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/348"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7313"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7316,"href":"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7313\/revisions\/7316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}