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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 p...

On Spiritual Pizza Making... (From the Pizza Therapy Archives) Robert writes: In your article on spiritual pizza making you say: "Spiritual pizza is made when you connect with yourpizza on a higher level. You put a part of yourself into each pizza. Make all of your pizza, Spiritual Pizza. Your pizza will taste better. Your pizza will be better." That really hit home with me, you wouldn't believe what I put into my pizza making and it really shows inthe pizza. If I'm making a pizza for company and really want it to be its best I will turn on the ovenlight and keep looking in at it to make sure it is just right, my wife laughs at me but the pizza isalways great. I've spent years now trying to perfect the crust, after all it's the crust that makes the pizza, everything elseis just toppings, right?. A couple of very important things I have learned along the way. If you are going to experiment away from a recipe,WRITE DOWN THE CHANGES YOU MAKE! Otherwise who canrem...

A Portobello and Buffalo Mozzarella Pizza from Pizza Therapy Pizza is a universal food. Originally confined to Italian neighborhoods, pizza has now become mainstream. Travel anywhere in the world and you will be able to find some type of pizza. As noted bread baker Peter Reinhart explained to me: “Pizza is the perfect flavor delivery system.” Pizza is the ultimate comfort food. With a little practice, you can easily make your own delicious home made pizza. Here are four reasons why you should make your own pizza. 1) Making pizza is easy. With the basic tools found in any kitchen, you will be able to make pizza dough. All pizza dough follows the same basic pattern. Mix flour with yeast, water and salt. Some pizza dough recipes call for oil, however this may be omitted. (I use olive oil in my recipe, but this is a matter of preference.) There are many wonderful pizza dough recipes available to you. You need to find one that you like and will satisfy your own taste. 2) Making pizza is...

Christmas came a little early for me, this year, in the form of a brand new KitchenAide . Oh yeah. I was first introduced to the KitchenAide by Chef Peter when we co-taught a cooking class, a couple of years ago. One of his first recommendations was to make it our main kitchen appliance. We used it mix dough for pizza and pasta. We were able to make cookies and cakes. We even used one of the attachments to make sausage. This did it all, except clean itself. Over the years, I've made lots of pizza dough. I make the dough by hand, because I like the feel of mixing my own pizza dough. When you have a limited amount of time to teach a class, however, you need to save some steps. When I used the Kitchenaide to make dough, the whole process went much faster. After a short while, I became convinced. Chef Peter, was right. It became our most valued appliance. The students loved using it. It was easy to operate, and easy to clean. We really noticed a difference when we used it to make pa...

My earlier video showed How to Make Pizza Dough . As you can see it is fairly simple to make pizza dough. As, I explain the hardest part is the clean up. You will find making pizza dough gets easier with each time you make it. Consider this video How to Make Pizza, as Part 2. I build a pizza from scratch and show you my personal method of making pizza. Once you create pizza, your life will never be the same. Make Pizza Be Happy! You can watch a step by step easy method of How to Make Pizza dough Here. This video is sponsored by pizzatherapy.com Also you may want to watch this video where I discuss Pizza Ingredients to Make Dough . This vidoe is sponosered by Legends of Pizza. Enjoy. Pizza On earth, Albert The Pizza Therapy Pizza Book

What can you say about the most celebrated pizzaiolo in the United States? He is simply amazing. In the following video you can watch Chris as he makes pizza. He makes each pizza very quickly. You can see him as he creates a masterpiece. He does so with love. Chris truly cares about each pizza he makes. Watch, learn, enjoy. This is simply amazing: you can discover an interview of Chris Bianco at Legends of Pizza, Volume 1 Respectfully, Albert Grande Pizzaiolo-in-training

Here is a video about my e-book, The Pizza Therapy Pizza Book. If you learn to make pizza, you will make magic happen in your kitchen. Your friends will praise you. Your kids will love you. Learn to make pizza right here. Pizza On Earth! Claim your copy of The Pizza Therapy Pizza Book, right here. pizza on earth, good will to all! albert grande http://pizzatherapy.com http://grandepublishing.com http://albertgrande.com

Over the lifetime of pizzatherapy.com I have received countless questions about pizza. These include dough problems, pizza peel issues, the best flour to use, does water make a difference in pizza. Where is the best pizza? Do I favor Chicago Deep Dish pizza over New York pizza ? I want to start a pizza business. ..where do I start? How do make 100 pizzas at a time, can you help? ( Yes: go here .) Who makes the best pizza? Pizza fanatics write to me, asking if I know the inside secrets of the pizza from their favorite pizzeria . They want to know if I can help them recreate a certain pizza. Pizza fans want to know about pizza! You get the idea. I also get lots of questions asking if I know the true secret of Pepe's on Wooster Street , in New Haven, Connecticut . (You can read some of the many comments sent to me here. ) People of course, are also interested in Sally's Apizza also located on Wooster Street . I always tell them: if I knew the real secret of Pepe's or Sa...

I got an email from my friend Franco, telling me there was a new pizza video on msn.com . "Watch it", he said. The video was an episode of : "A Big Life" with Sissy Biggers . In the episode Sissy learns to make pizza for the first time from scratch. I saw the finished pizza and it looked pretty good. Imagine my pleasant surprise when in the opening moments of the episode, up drives The Big Green Pizza Truck. "It's a small world after all..." I thought! The pizzaiolo of The Truck were going to teach Sissy how to make pizza. Owners Douglas Coffin and Kevin Spooner , gave Sissy some pizza making lessons as well as truck driving lessons... Watch the video right here>>> "Sissy Makes Pizza." Last year I had heard a number stories, about the The B ig Green Pizza Truck , a mobile pizzeria, with a full on, wood fired pizza oven, in the back. I knew I had to track down the truck and owner . I was finally able to track down Douglas a...