Secrets Inside the Pizzeria Interview

I recently got a copy of a great video tutorial on how to make pizza created by Bev Collins. It's called "Secret's Inside the Pizzeria". It was a simple guide with easy to understand tips about making pizza.

I decided to call up Bev and see if I could pull any more pizza secrets out of her.

I recorded the entire call.

It was a great pizza conversation. We covered a lot of information.

She is an interesting pizzaiolo.

First she never had pizza until she was 16. Here first pizza was out of a pizza kit. (Think Apian Way and Chef Boy Ardee...)

But somehow she persisted. She studied, she learned. She was tenacious. She didn't give up. Now she makes pizza like a master.

Some of the things we discussed were:

• pizza tools you need
• the best type of flour to use
• her take on other pizza ingredients
• the fact that you can have great ingredients but still not make great pizza
• It's all about all in the technique.
• Excellent step by step directions to make dough
• Some inside tips on why your dough needs to be cold
• Why you need to proof your pizza
  
  You can listen to the entire interview below:

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Get ready to learn about pizza secrets.

"This is a great step by step guide to making pizza.
As you may know, I've been making pizza for over 20 years.
I own a copy of Secrets Inside the Pizzeria, myself.
Can you teach an old pizza dog, new pizza tricks?
Yes you can.
I recommend this video series by Bev Collins."
Albert Grande, pizzatherapy.com

Here are some of the tools we discussed during our interview.







pizza forever,
albert

Top Pizza Blogs from The Daily Reviewer

The Daily Reviewer recently nominated this bolg as being one of the Top Pizza Blogs.

Hey thanks.

Here is a list of the best of the best who made the cut:

Slice America's Favorite Pizza Weblog. Adam Kuban's pizza vision. Intelligent, interesting and fun, with an attitude.

Pizza Blog About How To Eat Order Italian Pizza Online: After you order your pizza online and before the pizza delivery man delivers a fresh pie to your door...spend some time relaxing and reading our pizza blog. Great concept. Fantastic blog!

Passion-4-Pizza Blog: Lillian and Cary share their unique passion for pizza. Excellent resource. Pure pizza passion and insight.

worstpizza.com: Dedicated to finding the best pizza places, by sorting through the worst.
Opinionated but fair pizza reviews. Great information.

The Pizza Blog: Everything you wanted to know about pizza, but were afraid to ask. Very informative.

I Dream of Pizza: A New York City Pizza Blog: A blog dedicated to everything and anything about pizza. From recipes and reviews to the most obscure articles about your favorite food. Great.

The Home Pizza Chef: A great blog along with an excellent email newsletter. Pizza for everyone. A class act with lots of heart.

Chicago Pizza Club: "We are really happy if we can be a Chicago pizza resource for the public. There are a lot of pizzerias out there and we've got so many to try!" I love these guys!

Pizza Delivery Stories: True stories in the life of a part-time pizza delivery driver.

Pizza Radio: Interviews, features and news from the world of pizza from P.MQ. magazine.

LA Pizza: Pizza from the City of Angels. A promise to eat pizza daily, or at least 5 days a week. Right on!

Liza and Gary's DC Pizza Blog: Self-proclaimed pizza experts Liza and Gary scout out the best pizza in Washington, DC. They have our vote.

Minnesota Punch Pizza Blog: Twin Cities Punch Neapolitan Pizza Restaurants Blog.

Pizza Blog from pizzatherapy.com

Top pizza blogs

pizza, pizza, and more pizza,

albert

200,000 Pizza Views, Going for a million...

About 2 years ago, I made pizza in my kitchen. I decided to film the process. It was simple, basic and not a lot of bravado. Just me making pizza dough. Something I've done hundreds of times.

I then posted it on YouTube and kind of forgot about it.

Honestly, if you told me I would have more than a thousand views for my pizza dough video, I would have said you were wacky.

Sure people love pizza. People love to eat pizza. They eat it by the truckload. But never in my wildest dreams would I have thought, there would be very many pizza fans interested in making pizza.

Well the stats speak for themselves. First a thousand. Then ten tousand. Then tens of thousands. At the end of one year, I had 50,000 views.

I was shocked and amazed. That's a lot of pizza fans.

During the next year, I got an additional 150,000 views. That's a total of 200,000 views. (Alright almost 200,000...)

I'm speechless. I'm flabbergasted. I'm shocked. I'm in total disbelief.

Can that many people be interested in making pizza dough?

The answer is: yes there are...

Here's what I'm thinking: if I could get 200,000 people to watch this video, I thought, why not a million? So that's my goal. I'm trying to get a million views on YouTube.

You can help. The video follows. You can be a certified Secret Pizza Video Agent! It costs nothing to join. But you can help me to get to my goal.

Will you help me spread the word about my video? It's called How to Make Pizza Dough from pizzatherapy.com

Tell your friends. Tell your neighbors. Spread the word. Spread the link.
Help me make this video viral. If you have a website or blog, please feel free to embed the video from YouTube.

I'm really commited to have people learn about making pizza. And I really think, I can get one million views.

That's only 800,000 more than I now have. And a million is nothing more than a 1 with 6 zeros behind it. Thanks for your support...

Onward. Upward.
And Pizza on Earth, Good Will to All!

Watch this video, and play it forward. Thanks.






Grandma Grande, and Grandma Palmieri would have been very proud!

pizza on the planet,

albert