{"id":7416,"date":"2024-09-29T11:11:45","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T15:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/?p=7416"},"modified":"2024-09-29T17:24:23","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T21:24:23","slug":"leo-spizzirri-is-back-the-greatest-guy-you-never-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fornobravo.com\/pizzaquest\/leo-spizzirri-is-back-the-greatest-guy-you-never-knew\/","title":{"rendered":"Leo Spizzirri is back &#8212; &#8220;The Greatest Guy You Never Knew&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Welcome back to Pizza Quest<\/strong>, and welcome back to one of our long time favorites, pizza master <strong>Leo Spizzirri<\/strong>. When we first featured Leo on <em>Pizza Quest<\/em> about seven years ago we introduced him as the &#8220;Greatest guy you never knew,&#8221; but a lot has changed since then. His ever-present short reels on Instagram and feature length YouTube instructionals, the many demos he performs at numerous pizza and food conferences, his brand ambassadorship on behalf of a number of food products cooking tools, and his ongoing classes at <em>Pizza University<\/em> have brought Leo to the attention of thousands of food lovers everywhere. He&#8217;s also an avid collector and replica builder of vintage rock guitars (seems like pizza making and rock and roll music go together like peas and carrots), which we&#8217;ll also touch on in this episode. But, most importantly, in this episode we announce the collaboration between Leo and me on an upcoming three-day sourdough pizza intensive at <em>Pizza University<\/em> on Oct. 21-23 (click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pizzauniversity.org\/events\/3-day-intensive-the-past-present-and-future-of-pizza-wild-yeast-baking-with-peter-reinhart-and-leo-spizzirri\/\">here <\/a>for all the details) and we&#8217;d love for you to attend. We talk about this, as well as Leo&#8217;s 25-year journey to perfect his craft and unique teaching methods, and lots of other pizza-loving geek-out stuff in this latest episode of <em>Pizza Quest<\/em>. Join us for the ride&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Episode 5  - Leo Spizzirri is No Longer the &quot;Greatest Guy You Never Knew&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WncDpX6Y8gA?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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to Pizza Quest, and welcome back to one of our long time favorites, pizza master Leo Spizzirri. 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