Pizza Quest with Peter Reinhart

Hi Everyone, I’m back from a fun and exciting trip through Texas, which entailed visiting five cities in five days, teaching artisan bread classes at the Central Market Cooking Schools in San Antonio, Austin, Houston, Fort Worth, and Dallas. By exciting, I mean that on Sunday, while I was teaching my final class, in Dallas (and while the Cowboys were getting beat by the Packers in an amazing finish, just up…Read More…

Hi Everyone, By the time you read this I will be off to Texas, teaching a series of classes at the Central Market Cooking Schools in San Antonio (January 11th), Austin (12th), Houston (13th), Fort Worth (14th), and Dallas (15th). Whew!! Not a lot of time to do any pizza (or barbecue) hunting, but a great chance to meet lots of fellow bread-heads. If you are already coming to my…Read More…

January 3, 2017 Welcome to the New Year! We want to start off our new season with an intro webisode that sets the stage for our remarkable 3 days of filming at the Forno Bravo Wood-Fired Oven Expo. Over the next few months, as we post additional segments, you will see demos, interviews, partake vicariously in some tasting with a master wine maker, and of course you will witness lots…Read More…

Hi Everyone, I think it’s safe to say that this was the craziest year many of us have ever known, from sublime to surreal. But at least here, on PizzaQuest, it has been a wonderful year, in many ways our best ever, and for this I want to say thanks to everyone who helped make it possible, including you, our followers, readers, and fellow pizza freaks. One of the things…Read More…

The Colorado Chili Pie: In this, the final segment from the Pizzeria Brava della Strada series, David Bravdica shows us his prized Colorado Chile Pie, made from local peppers grown in Pueblo (southern Colorado, near the New Mexico border), fire-roasted in a flaming tumbler to bring out maximum flavor. This might be a good time to go back and review some of the other Pizzeria Brava segments to see the…Read More…

Some pizza purists maintain that the only “real” pizza is the Margherita. Others will argue that the Pizza Marinara predates the Margherita. True diehards insist that the Pizza Bianca, with just olive oil and sea salt, is clearly the oldest form. When I was getting started in the business toppings were limited to sausage, mushrooms, and anchovies. Well, times have changed. Creative pizza makers like Rome’s Gabriele Bonci, and our…Read More…

Note from Peter:  I’m not going to say much here other than to implore you to read this interview with two of the most fascinating people I’ve ever met, Nadezhda Savova-Grigorov and her husband, Stefan Grigorov, who live in Sofia, Bulgaria. I guarantee that after you read about the work they are doing you will feel a newly energized hope for the world, which is  just what we need at this time…Read More…

It was one of those days. It had rained recently and although the sky was blue there were some clouds that lingered. You could still feel the presence of the rain in the cool fall air. I was off from work and was looking forward to picking the kids up from school and surprising them with some piping hot pizzas out of the oven. We had a great little family…Read More…

Note from Peter: Scott Wiener, a regular Pizza Quest Guest Columnist, is back to report on an amazingly successful fund raising event in NYC that may soon be showing up in other cities.  Scott’s column highlights to me the grace that flows to and through people who have a vision, a passion, and the willingness to simply “go for it!”  Scott’s Pizza Tours began as a college hobby and soon grew into…Read More…

As we come near to the end of our webisode series with David Bravdica, owner of the wildly popular Brava Pizzeria della Strada in Denver, Colorado, I think the time has come to share with you my favorite segment. In addition to killer pizzas, which we’ve seen in previous segments as well as the final segment still to come (where David features pizza loaded with local chilies), this time we’ll get…Read More…