A Conversation with the "Most Connected Guy in Pizza," Scott Wiener

03/31/24 • 39 min

Peter 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 competition at the Expo, where Scott was a lead judge), the growing impact of Slice Out Hunger, the non-profit hunger relief program formed by Scott a number of years ago, the ever-popular pizza tours that first put Scott on the map 20 years ago, Scott's Guinness World Record Pizza Box collection, and most important, the upcoming three-day pizza intensive course that Peter and Scott will co-teach at Pizza University, May 13-15. Get all the details here, in this week's latest episode of Pizza Quest.

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Animal-Free Cheese that Actually Tastes and Performs Like Cheese

Our 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 relationship with the current options of faux cheese, usually made with nut and seed milks. New Culture's breakthrough came by breaking the bio-chemical code of milk cheeses and to zero in on casein as the key. Casein is what makes cheese perform like cheese, as Inja explains in this fascinating conversation. Where will it lead, and when will this breakthrough, game-changing product be available to the general public? Listen in as Inja explains it all.

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Chef Michael Friedman

Chef 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 paying his dues in fine dining restaurants around the world (including stints with Rich Melman's Lettuce Entertain You restaurant group, as well as with Chef Marc Vetri in Philadelphia, and also with Chef Jose Andres), Mike started his own restaurant group in the Washington DC area and, for the past ten years, has garnered awards and recognition of his own. All-Purpose (A-P) Pizza Shop, in its three locations, pays tribute to the east coast pizzas and slice shops of his youth, and joins Red Hen and Aventino Roman Cucina as part of his ever-growing restaurant empire. Hear all about Chef Mike's quest to bring the past into the present, and the culinary vision that drives him forward in this new episode of Pizza Quest with Peter Reinhart.

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