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Pizza Therapy On YouTube

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Pizza Therapy On YouTube Celebrate Pizza. This video gives a taste of The Pizza Therapy YouTube Channel. Here is the intro:  The following video is a tribute video to the best Connecticut Pizza. The state is rich in history and more. Connecticut boasts New Haven Style Pizza. Pepe's , Sally's Apizza , Zuppardi's Apizza and Modern Apizza each serve outstanding pizza. The extreme heat of the coal bakes the pizza at Pepe's , Sally's Apizza , and Zuppardi's Apizza , to perfection. These are classic old time ovens that have been grandfathered into the laws of Connecticut.  Modern Apizza   surprisingly uses an oil fired oven. The extreme heat in all of the pizza ovens allows the pizza to be cooked quickly and completely. You may find some black spots on the dough, but that will add to the entire pizza eating experience. If you are a fan of pizza I urge you to take the tour and discover the magic of true New Haven style pizza. And of course you...

The Eggplant Parmesan Report

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Before I ever thought about making pizza, I was making eggplant... Along with Pizza, Eggplant Parmesan is my signature dish... Eggplant Parmesan is a great main course or can be used as a side dish. Eggplant is a magical vegetable that does not have a strong taste. Eggplant Parmesan is a great main course or can be used as a side dish. As a matter of fact, by itself eggplant is rather mild. However, once cooked with other ingredients, eggplant acts as an agent for all of the flavors and spices around it. Eggplant has the ability to make all other tastes stand out and do back flips. Eggplant is truly an enchanting vegetable.    I want to introduce you to one of my favorite vegetables. Eggplant. Eggplant is a wonderful vegetable that for some reason frightens some people. I’m sure they are not afraid of the vegetable itself, I think they are afraid of the taste. And for that reason, the humble eggplant gets very little respect in the vegetable world. ...

World Pizza Games at Pizza Expo 2014

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Schedule of Events: Tuesday, March 25th, 2014 10:45am:  Fastest Dough Trials 11:45am:  Fastest Dough Finals 12:00pm:  First Division Acrobatic 2:00pm:  First Division Acrobatic Finalists Announced 2:15pm:  Fastest Box Folding 2:45pm:  Fastest Box Folding Finals Wednesday, March 26th, 2014 10:30am:  Pizza Triathlon Trials 11:15am:  Pizza Triathlon Finals 11:30am:  Largest Dough Trials 3:00pm:  Largest Dough Finals 6:30pm:  World Pizza Games Rocking Finals Party! 

From A Hawaii Pizza Dream to a Central Virginia Pizza Dream....

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Meet Sharlene...she has a pizza dream. She wants to spread the passion of pizza. I met Sharlene and her husband at Pizza Expo.  They were both personable and friendly. They shared their dream of making pizza. They displayed heart. They showed their passion. Sharlene explained to me she was a professional photographer.  This was her day job. She got paid to take pictures. "Nice job", I thought. He husband was a techie. He designed and created software. They explained the dream was to move to Hawaii and open a pizzeria . They said they were moving to Maui.. Hawaii can always use another great pizza place. But why am I always meeting people who are moving to Maui ? (BTW: If you are coming to Maui, click HERE )  (I tried to explain, that if they were coming to Hawaii, I had great resources, for them. Unfortunately, they already had all the answers...they had no questions. All the answers! Hmm I thought...) I tried to tell them about the Best Book to Read if you a...

Pizza Quest Webisode with Peter Reinhart

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Peter Reinhart is one of the true Legends of Pizza . He has perfected the craft of making incredible pizza. As a matter of fact he once explained to me he could deconstruct any pizza as well as reveal all of the ingredients included. Further he states he can re-create that pizza in his kitchen. Know this: Peter is not only a pizza expert, he is also a wonderful person full of pizza passion and pizza love. You can find out more about Peter by following him at his Pizza Quest Blog  sponsored by the wonderful folks at Forno Bravo . Peter has now taken his pizza show on the road. Pizza Quest will be a traveling circus of pizza. He will be visiting all manner of wonderful pizza makers and pizza personalities. As he explains you'll go to Pizza Mozz , Tony's Pizzeria Napoletana , Pizzeria Delfina and much much more... You can bet we will be following each episode of Pete's Pizza Quest... You can get a taste of Peter's journey right here:   You can...

3 Dimensional Pizza Created by a Printer

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Yeah, we've heard about supposed non-artisans making artisan pizza. And there is much talk about chain pizzerias making hand tossed... so now technology has gotten into the act...I can attest this cannot taste good! Well now we have seen everything: A 3 D Printer making A 3 D Pizza wow

Pizza Expo Pizza Tossing with a Surprise....

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The Pizza Competition at Pizza Expo is fierce. Contestants spend months and months perfecting their routines. They want to show the best skills. They want to display a wow factor. Let's face it: they want to impress the judges. Pizza Dough tossing at the Pizza Expo with a surprise at the end: All pizza tossing isn't shocking, but this contestan takes pizza tossing to a whole new level.