Pizza Quest with Peter Reinhart

Welcome back to Pizza Quest! Joel Kostman helped support his family for over 30 years as a New York City locksmith, but that was just his day job. By night, he was (and still is) a serious writer who channeled his locksmithing adventures into a semi-autobiographical fictional cult classic story collection called, “Keys to the City: Tales of a New York City Locksmith.” The New York Times even called him…Read More…

Welcome back to Pizza Quest! In this episode, we are joined by Eddie Fischer (no, not the famous singer and husband of Debbie Reynolds and father of Carrie Fisher), but the OTHER Eddie Fischer, a Jersey guy, the founder of How U Doin?, a new boys and girls club about to launch near Dallas, Texas. Yes, he and I share a long, shared history of East Coast pizza questing but,…Read More…

Welcome back to Pizza Quest 2025, for a new season with lots of exciting guests, both new and returning!  We kick off the new season with Chef David Nayfeld, chef and owner of a hot new restaurant in the shadow of San Francisco’s dynamic sports complex in an area called Thrift City (the restaurant is located on Warrior Way, lest there be any doubts about his Golden State bona fides). …Read More…

Welcome back to Pizza Quest and Happy New Year!! We’ll soon be posting all new podcast interviews but, while we gear up for that, I wanted to let you know about my upcoming Sourdough Fundamentals livestream (aka, Sourdough 101) via The Milk Street Online Cooking School, on January 22nd. This link will take you to the sign up page and you can get a 15% discount by using the code…Read More…

Dear Pizza Quest Followers, The Quest goes on, and we’ve enjoyed expanding the scope of our journey with you our fellow Questers. Thank you so much for your support and appreciative feedback for the diverse variety of guests and topics of this past year. We’re in the process now of lining up a unique and exciting array of guests for the 2025 season, and plan to return in early January…Read More…

Welcome back to Pizza Quest!   Once again, the operative word for this episode is Quest, as we welcome author, mentor, and game changer, Dr. Marc B. Cooper. Marc’s mission and personal quest is to restore a sense of meaning and purpose for those of us who fall into the “senior citizen” bracket (but, really, it’s a timeless mission for all of us regardless of age). The title of his…Read More…

Welcome back to Pizza Quest! As most of you know by now, for us it’s as much about the Quest as it is about the Pizza, and this week’s guest, author David Amadio, takes us on a deep dive into the quest of his father, Jerry Amadio, a master carpet installer and rug expert, who is just as dedicated to his own craft as any pizzaiolo that I know is…Read More…

Welcome back to Pizza Quest!      Marco Pacelli is doing something wonderful in Redondo Beach, California at his pasta shop, Fatto a Mano’. After a lifetime of working for Michelin-level fine dining restaurants, he and his wife, Arlene, decided to open a small pasta and Roman-style pizza shop showcasing the foods inspired by Marco’s Aunt Concettina, the woman who shaped his culinary passion during the summers he spent with her…Read More…

     Chef Tandy Wilson is an important player in the Nashville/Germantown culinary renaissance. Hear how this classically trained chef paid his dues with the big guys and then returned to his roots to create a signature style all his own (and winning a James Beard Award in the process, while making killer pizzas), in this latest episode of Pizza Quest.

Welcome back to Pizza Quest! Chef Fiore Tedesco was born completely deaf and couldn’t hear anything until he was five years old, when his hearing was miraculously recovered through a risky series of operations. He made up for lost time after that, retraining himself to not only hear, speak, and expand his vocabulary, but to also play drums in a rock band and then travel the world with his bandmates….Read More…