Join the conversation! Pizza Quest is certainly about pizza, but it’s so much more! It’s an engaging celebration of artisanship in all its shapes and forms. Award winning author Peter Reinhart interviews many of the greatest pizza makers in the world, as well as growers, cheese makers, millers, and food producers of all kinds who all who have one thing in common: an unquenchable drive to experience and express the highest level of excellence in their work, and to share it with their friends, family, and customers. Peter explores the varying journeys that led them to achieve prominence in t...
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60 min
The Quest for the Best Rock Band Singers of All Time
Welcome Back to Pizza Quest!This conversation is bound to tick off some folks, and everyone's entitled to his or her own opinion, but our music Yoda, Peter Scott Ruben, is definite…
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57 min
Team Rose Bread: The Little Cottage Bakery That Could
Welcome back to Pizza Quest!The cottage bakery movement is a global phenomenon and we have here, in my hometown of Charlotte, NC, a shining example of a rising star of this movemen…
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51 min
Two Chefs and Marketing Guru Walk Into a Bar....
Welcome back to Pizza Quest!This episode is a case study on how to create and bring a new product to market. The product is called Pizza Freak, and the team members behind it are B…
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48 min
Slicehaus is Taking on the Mecca of Pizza - Agostino Cangiano and Tatiana Revox
Welcome back to Pizza Quest! Somehow, New York City never has too many great pizzerias, and they all seem to push their competitors to keep raising the bar. In the midst of one of…
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58 min
A Sourdough Retrospective by Sarah Owens
Ten years ago, Sarah Owens decided to parlay her success as a successful cottage baker and curator of roses at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, and write a book, "Sourdough: Recipes…
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Tasting The Mt. Rushmore of Cheeses, with Mark Todd, The Cheese Dude
Mark Todd, aka "The Cheese Dude" returns to take us on the ultimate cheese tasting to die for -- or, more accurately, a "Before You Die" tour. Mark has previously guided us through…
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55 min
The Return of Meathead
Welcome back to Pizza Quest! The artist known as Meathead is back, hard on the heels of his newest book, The Meathead Method: A BBQ Hall of Famer's Secrets and Science on BBQ, Gril…
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50 min
An Upcoming Pizza Documentary and a Potential Vampire Movie? - Blaine And Honey Parker
Welcome back to Pizza Quest.You may remember Blaine Parker from an earlier episode, awhile back, in which we discussed his book and website, Free the Pizza, which is a humorous, st…
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53 min
From Meat Packing to Bread Making - Steven Katz And Donna Webber
Welcome back to Pizza Quest,Rye bread, the way we remember it -- at least those of who grew up near Jewish bakeries and delis -- has never really gone away but it does, at times, s…
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51 min
Bird Pizzeria - The Original Creators of the Viral Kale Caesar Salad
Welcome back to Pizza Quest!Charlotte, NC is starting to generate more and more national buzz as a culinary destination city. Top Chef is in pre-production here in preparation for…
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60 min
Pizza Yodis - The Legendary Leo Spizzirri Has Entered the Chat
Welcome back to Pizza Quest!Every now and then we are fortunate to welcome back the legendary John Arena, who I refer to as the Yoda of Pizza. Often, Brian Spangler of Portland's A…
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52 min
Local Grains, Artisan Breads: An Interview with Ellen King of Hewn Bakery
Welcome back to Pizza Quest for another new season of conversations with very interesting people.Ellen King, whose bakery in Evanston, Illinois, Hewn, has become legendary for its…
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49 min
Garrett McPerry of Tommy & Atticus
Garrett McPerry fell down the sourdough rabbit hole about eight years ago, started selling loaves at his local farmers market and, fueled by the public's enthusiastic response, jus…
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52 min
Howard Brownstein, Expert in Turnaround and Crisis Management
For the past 65 years I have been in an ongoing dialogue with my childhood friend, Howard (aka Howie) Brownstein. Howie used to work as a delivery driver for Mama's Pizzeria, which…
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48 min
Randy Clemens, Co-Founder of Las Bandurrias Food Forest and Homestead
Welcome back to Pizza Quest!When I first met Randy Clemens he was a seventeen-year old guy looking for a purpose in life, something to sink his teeth into, and volunteering to be m…
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51 min
Paulie Gee and "Mrs. Gee" Talk about their new book, "Pizza From the Heart"
Welcome back to Pizza Quest!One of the most beloved couples in all of pizzadom have just released their first book, Pizza From the Heart, and it's a beauty, loaded with wonderful r…
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51 min
Teach a Man to Bake… with Kyle Ahlgren of Central Milling
Welcome back to Pizza Quest!Kyle Ahlgren returns with some great news regarding the online baking courses he has created for Central Milling's Artisan Baking Center. He's also offe…
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56 min
Chef Cathy Whims of Nostrana
Six-Time James Beard Finalist, Cathy Whims, of Portland's Nostrana, on her new book.Welcome back to Pizza Quest!This week we welcome six-time James Beard Award finalist, Chef Cathy…
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47 min
KID, Manhattan's New Slice Cafe, with Chefs Ian Coogan and Max Blackman-Gentile
Welcome back to Pizza Quest! NYC is a treacherous place to open a new pizzeria. The competition is fierce and public is vocal and not always diplomatic. But the lure of reaching fo…
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59 min
Peter Scott Ruben and the Greatest Performer of All Time
My long-time friend, Peter Scott Ruben, is the best guitar player I know, having personally watched him jam with some of the great rock and blues musicians of the seventies (Joe Pe…