On today's episode of All in the Industry®, Shari Bayer's guest is Dan Richer, chef and owner of Razza Pizza Artigianale in Jersey City, NJ, his American artisanal pizza restaurant featuring wood fired pizza, where we on location! At Razza, Dan and his team aspire to the Italian way of...

This week on Pizza Quest we return to Ann Arbor, Michigan for a second visit with another member of the Zingerman's Community of Businesses, this time with Amy Emberling. Amy is the managing partner at the world-famous Zingerman's Bakehouse, where NY-Style rye bread meets San Francisco-style sourdough, and "Old School...

We welcome back Mark Todd, The Cheese Dude, to Pizza Quest. This is Mark's third visit in what will continue as an ongoing series of master sessions (which makes him our "Cheese Yoda") on the fathomless world of cheese. In previous episodes we explored Pasta Filata, which is the category...

Leah Scurto was born to be a food star, not just a pizza star, as you will learn in this entertaining conversation with host Peter Reinhart. Half Mexican, half Italian, born into a family of food lovers who shared wonderful family meals during her early years, Leah's current success was...

Michael Kalanty was my faculty colleague when I taught at the California Culinary Academy back in the 1990's. Since then, he and I have been on parallel tracks, both as educators, bread book authors, and as product developers. In this episode, Michael shares his long and winding road including pastry...

Well folks, as the end days keep on keeping on, we decided to talk to you about the one place on earth that brings us great joy- New York, New York. Sure it’s smelly and hot and oppressively expensive. And yes, the powers that be are evil and corrupt, but...

Three years ago, Eidref Laxa started a podcast in San Jose, California as a way to learn everything he could about pizza so that, maybe, one day he could open his own pizzeria. Over 150 episodes later, "What's Good Dough" has become a goldmine of pizza knowledge, culled from the...

In light of the new announcements of James Beard awards, we would like to congratulate Chris Bianco (Outstanding Restauranteur) and post again our conversation with Chris Bianco. Congratulations Chris: Chris is rightfully acclaimed as the poster boy of the artisan pizza movement. Not only is he an important and unfiltered...

Hailing from California with time spent in Vermont, Max Mackinnon found a love for cooking and attended the French Culinary Institute after college in Vermont. He crisscrossed the country working in San Francisco, Washington DC, Hudson NY, his own restaurant Pistou in Vermont, and even worked in Copenhagen. Max always...

Tommy Garnick is known and loved throughout the pizza world as the Grand Champion of the 2019 California Milk Board Pizza Competition and as the former owner of Brava Pizza in Denver and as an instructor at The Fire Within Wood-Fired University. More recently, however, Tommy has relocated to Tucson...