Passing through Ballycastle, a charming seaside town on the Causeway Coast in Ireland’s northeast corner, one wouldn’t necessarily expect to find a world-class bakery serving sourdough breads and creative, beautiful pastries. But after spending time learning and traveling abroad, this is exactly what Ciara O’hArtlaighle and her husband, Dara, created...

Two internationally known pizza stars are part of the ever-growing cadre of pizza makers putting Texas on the global map. Nicole Bean, award-winning pizzaiola and president of Houston's Pizaro's Pizza, and three-time World Pizza Champion Derek Sanchez, co-founder of Mia Marco's Pizza in Selma (just outside of San Antonio), join...

Welcome Back to Pizza Quest! There is no question that Ooni Ovens have taken the world by storm, even eclipsing their worthy competitor RoccBox, which had a nice head start. How have they done it? Fortunately, Scott Deley, who just published a book called The Ooni Pizza Project, joins the...

Chefs Thomas McNaughton and Ryan Pollnow, the creative minds behind San Francisco's award-winning Flour + Water, join Peter to discuss their newest restaurant, Flour + Water Pizzeria. Located in the heart of the city's North Beach neighborhood (aka Little Italy), Flour + Water Pizzeria will switch the focus from the...

On this episode of Pizza Quest, we catch up with the biggest rock star in the pizza universe, multi-world pizza champion Tony Gemignani. Tony is the owner of Tony's Pizza Napoletana and Pizza Rock, along with many other restaurants, bakeries, pizza schools, and even a new bagel shop in San...

Lars and Cristina Smith must be doing something right. Their restaurant, State of Mind Public House and Pizzeria, is killing it in Los Altos, California, just south of San Francisco. Lars is also competing on the USA Pizza Champions Team and is a fast-rising star in the American pizza community...

Join Peter as he meets with three of the leading voices in the USA pizza movement: Laura Meyer, Stephanie Swane, and Alexandra Mortati. As more and more women take the helm of their pizza businesses, they encounter similar but also different challenges than their male counterparts, and bring new creativity...

Chef Ryan Hardy has been killing it in the Lower East Side of New York City with his wood-fired Neapolitan pizzas and other fire-cooked menu items at Pasquale Jones. And now, a few yards away, he has opened a hot new Sicilian-themed cafe called Bar Pasquale, where sfincione-style pan pizzas...

One of the recent paradigm shifts in the pizzeria world is that customers are now familiar with and in search of many styles of pizza, be it classic Neapolitan, New York and New Haven, thin-crusted parlor and bar pizzas, Detroit and Sicilian thick crusted, and all of the variations in-between...

Robots, automation and AI are here. On this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talks with former Space-X engineer Benson Tsai, CEO and co-founder of Stellar Pizza (robot-powered pizza trucks), and Stephan von Muehlen CEO and co-founder of Poursteady (automated pour-over coffee machines). Photo Courtesy of @robotsrthebest Heritage Radio...