Latest Chris bianco Podcast Episodes
World Pizza Champion Joe Carlucci
Pizza Quest - May 12, 2024 16:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsOur guest in this episode is long-time world pizza champion, Joe Carlucci. So, you might ask, how did a nice New York area kid end up running an iconic, destination pizzeria, Valentina's Pizzeria and Wine Bar, in Madison, Alabama? It's a long story, and one best told by Joe himself, including th...
Antimo and Mauro Caputo
Pizza Quest - May 05, 2024 16:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsThis week, Peter is joined by the legendary Antimo Caputo, along with his nephew and head of milling, Mauro Caputo. Caputo Flour has carved out a beloved place in the hearts of Neapolitan pizza lovers everywhere. But the company, under Antimo's leadership, produces a lot more than just their sig...
Women In Pizza: Giorgia Caporuscio and Azie Mortati
Pizza Quest - April 28, 2024 16:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsThis week's episode features two of the founders and leaders of the Women in Pizza movement, Giorgia Caporuscio and Azie Mortati. What started out as a informal fellowship and way to acknowledge the growing role that women are playing in the pizza world, has grown into a dynamic education and ph...
The Search for an Instant Sourdough Starter
Pizza Quest - April 21, 2024 16:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsPeter's guests this week are Noel Brohner of Slow Rise Pizza, who has appeared on the show in the past, along with his colleague, molecular biologist James Gaffney. They have been working, along with a few other microbe geniuses, to create a powdered wild yeast sourdough starter that can be used...
Marco's Pizza
Pizza Quest - April 14, 2024 16:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWe often focus on independent pizza makers here on Pizza Quest. But, only 50% of the pizzas sold in this country are made by the thousands of independent operators; the other 50% are sold by the many pizza franchise chains, and most of those are from the top five brands. Marco's Pizza has recent...
Chef Michael Friedman
Pizza Quest - April 07, 2024 16:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsChef Michael Friedman grew up in a New York area Jewish American household (in Westfield, NJ, to be specific) and, like me, was nourished by lots of Chinese and Italian food. Also like me, he attended Boston University's School of Communications, so we share a kindred spirit connectivity. After ...
A Conversation with the "Most Connected Guy in Pizza," Scott Wiener
Pizza Quest - March 31, 2024 16:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsPeter just spent a few days at the 2024 International Pizza Expo, where he sat down with the "Energizer Bunny of Pizza," and frequent guest, Scott Wiener, who seems to know everyone in the pizza mega-verse. Together, they cover everything from emerging trends (based on this year's pizza competit...
Dairy-Free Cheese that Actually Tastes and Performs Like Cheese
Pizza Quest - March 24, 2024 16:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsOur guest this week is Inja Radman, co-founder of New Culture Food, a company with a mission to provide the world with dairy-free cheese, beginning with mozzarella, that actually tastes and performs like the milk-based originals. Even those with lactose or dairy sensitivities have a love-hate re...
Animal-Free Cheese that Actually Tastes and Performs Like Cheese
Pizza Quest - March 24, 2024 16:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsOur guest this week is Inja Radman, co-founder of New Culture Food, a company with a mission to provide the world with animal-free cheese, beginning with mozzarella, that actually tastes and performs like the milk-based originals. Even those with lactose or dairy sensitivities have a love-hate r...
Jillana Miller and Ahmad Butler
Pizza Quest - March 17, 2024 16:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsThis week's episode features Jillana Miller and Ahmad Butler who, together, are the dynamic team known as MillerButler, a sizzling-hot mobile pizza and catering company, based in San Pedro, California. Ahmad competed against Peter and 10 other finalists at the Real California Pizza Contest in Na...
Paul Lackey of Lloyd Pans
Pizza Quest - March 10, 2024 16:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsLloyd Pans has emerged as the leading supplier of pans for every style of pan pizza, and Paul Lackey is their Director of Operations. On this week's podcast, which was recorded at the Northeast Pizza and Pasta Expo in Atlantic City, Paul describes the manufacturing process that enables Lloyd Pan...
No Glass Ceiling, Shannon Mangini
Pizza Quest - March 03, 2024 17:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsSometimes it just takes moxie. Shannon Mangini is living proof of that. In just a few short years since graduating from U Penn's Wharton School with a degree in economics, entrepreneurship, and finance, Shannon has brought DiFara Pizza to the North Fork of Long Island. In addition, she has been...
World Pizza Champion Anthony Berghela
Pizza Quest - February 25, 2024 17:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWho would have thought that Glenmont, NY, near Albany, would be home to one of the reigning international pizza champions, but that's where Anthony Berghela, of Romo's Pizza, makes it happen. Hear all about how he honed his craft while working his way to the World Pizza Cup Championships in Napl...
Anthony Mangieri
Pizza Quest - February 18, 2024 17:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsAnthony Mangieri is one of our favorite guests. Now that his NYC restaurant Una Pizza Napoletana was recently anointed by one poll as the "best pizzeria in the world," this is a timely return visit to the show. On this episode, Anthony tells us all about his new line of frozen pizzas under the n...
Rob Cervoni, King of Roman-Style Pizza in Mineola, NY
Pizza Quest - February 11, 2024 17:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsRoman-style pizza is in a steady ascent across the country, due in no small part to the success of this week's guest, Rob Cervoni. Rob is a disciple of the acclaimed Massimiliano Saieva pizza tree, but is now forging his own glittering path. Many of you have seen him kick everyone's butt and bec...
Ron Costello
Pizza Quest - February 04, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsPeter hasn't seen Ronnie Costello in 53 years, since they played together on their high school baseball team. It has also been 60 years since they attended Belmont Hills Elementary School together. They lived on different sides of Mary Waters Ford Road, the street that, like the Maginot Line, se...
Michael Vakneen of Truly Pizza
Pizza Quest - January 28, 2024 17:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWelcome back to Pizza Quest. On this episode, Peter talks with one of the fastest rising stars in the pizza firmament, Michael Vakneen, co-founder of Truly Pizza in Dana Point, CA (near Laguna Beach), partnering with pizza legends Chris Decker and John Arena. Michael is also making some of the b...
Bill Crawford of Righteous Slice
Pizza Quest - January 21, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsOn this episode we welcome Bill Crawford, former Air Force jet fighter test pilot and, now, the owner of Righteous Slice in Rexburg, Idaho. Bill shows us all about his Grand Prize winning El Pollo Barracho Pizza (aka "Drunken Chicken" pizza, with tequila marinated chicken) from the 2024 Real Cal...
Karen Bornarth of the Bread Baker's Guild of America
Pizza Quest - January 14, 2024 17:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsThe pizza and artisan bread worlds inevitably found each other during the past two decades, and it's a marriage made in heaven. Now, we see a lot of cross-over as pizzerias are making their own breads and many bakeries are making great pizza. The common denominator in all of this is the Bread B...
Bagels with The Yodi's
Pizza Quest - January 07, 2024 17:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWelcome back to Pizza Quest. Yes, the Yodi's are back! John Arena and Brian Spangler, our two original Pizza gurus who helped launch these Pizza Talk/Pizza Quest shows during the pandemic, are joined by the true global bagel poet laureate of our time, Philip Korshak, for a delightful conversatio...
Roberto Caporuscio and Massimiliano Saieva
Pizza Quest - December 31, 2023 17:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsThis episode was recorded at the Northeast Pizza and Pasta Expo in Atlantic with two of the giants in the pizza world, Roberto Caporuscio of the acclaimed Kesté Pizza Napoletana in Greenwich Village, and Massimiliano Saieva, the master teacher of the ASR PIZZALAB, who has been featured on Pizza ...
Bagels are Back!
Pizza Quest - December 17, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsYes, bagels are back, with a vengeance! Wonderful shops are bobbing up all over the country, in much the same way as their "kissing cousin" the donut shop. The bagel cycle is fairly predictable, as bagels never really go out of fashion, but the trend often spikes every ten years or so, rejuvenat...
Sourdough Pizza with International Champion Will Grant
Pizza Quest - December 10, 2023 17:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWill Grant seemingly burst on the scene about 8 years ago as an "overnight success" after winning the Caputo Cup Championship in NYC for his White Sourdough Pizza with Gorgonzola Creme Sauce. For 25 years prior to that, he had simply been a well-kept secret in the Pacific Northwest at his now de...
Blaine Parker of Free the Pizza
Pizza Quest - December 03, 2023 17:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsThis week Peter talks with Blaine Parker, the creator and host of the website "Free the Pizza," a site devoted to the unending quest of making pizza in a home oven as good as those from a pizzeria. Can it be done? Blaine says yes, and has written an entire book showing readers how, as well as po...
Scott Wiener and John Gutekanst, Pizza Pioneers
Pizza Quest - November 26, 2023 17:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsTwo of the most creative forces in the ever-growing pizza community join Peter this week in a conversation recorded at the Pizza and Pasta Northeast Expo in Atlantic City, NJ. Both are monthly contributors to Pizza Today Magazine, and are regular presenters at both Pizza Expo's. At Avalanche Pi...
All About Pizza University with Francesco Marra
Pizza Quest - November 19, 2023 17:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsFrancesco Marra is the co-founder of Marra Forni, and also the founder of Pizza University (in Maryland, near Washington DC), where some of the most famous pizza makers in the world teach hands-on classes for both professional and home pizza enthusiasts. In this episode, Francesco tells us of hi...
Ed Zimmerman of The Food Connector
Pizza Quest - November 12, 2023 17:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsEd Zimmerman is a name not many people outside the pizza and food service industry know (though those of us in the pizza world all know him), but all of us, whether inside or outside of the profession, are impacted by the creative work he does. His company, The Food Connector, organizes the annu...
Prime-6: A Game-Changer in Wood-Fire Cooking
Pizza Quest - November 05, 2023 17:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsPeter welcomes Oron Franco, co-creator (along with his wife Riki) of Prime-6. If you watch Shark Tank, where the Franco's landed a major "Shark," (Keven O'Leary, aka Mr. Wonderful), you already know that this is not ordinary charcoal and fire logs, but is made from 100% hardwood sawdust that has...
Chef Wylie Dufresne
Pizza Quest - October 29, 2023 16:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsMost culinary savants are familiar with Chef Wylie Dufresne, who, at his groundbreaking Manhattan restaurant, WD 50, brought modernist molecular gastronomy in the style and spirit of Heston Blumenthal, Grant Achatz, and Ferran Adria to NYC about 10 years ago. Since then, like so many other great...
The Rise and Fall of Korshak Bagels, featuring Philip Korshak
Pizza Quest - October 22, 2023 16:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsKorshak Bagels, nestled in the heart of Philadelphia's historic Italian Market Neighborhood, was like the mouse that roared. Producing only 1,000 hand-shaped sourdough bagels a day, Philip Korshak's love-child of a Bagelry garnered national press during its brief two-year run, and elicited deep ...
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