Frank Giovanni helps pizzerias by supplying them with the finast ingredients. Salandino’s has been in the business for over 50 years. They always put their customers first. You can visit them at;

The story of Saladino’s, Inc., is proof that great things can come from personal commitment, unwavering determination and old fashioned family values.

The story begins in Fresno, California, where Don Saladino worked in the meat department of his father’s grocery store. In 1944, Don combined his meat packaging experience with Old World family recipes from Italy’s Calabrese region, and launched Saladino Sausage Company – the business grew quickly and earned a widespread reputation for delicious, high-quality sausage products.

In 1980, Don’s son, Craig, joined his father in the family business. Together, they expanded their product offerings to include specialty sausage and linguica, which they sold to local pizzerias and restaurants. The company’s wide variety of raw and cooked sausage products attracted a loyal following among a growing number of retail and institutional customers.

Visit them, here:
http://saladinos.com/

If you want to purchase pizza supplies for your pizzeria, you need to check out, Saladino’s.
Tell them, Pizza Therapy sent you!

A very important aspect of using the Internet is the use of video. If you are not using video for your website, or your business, you are leaving money on the table.

If you would like a custom video created for your pizzeria, please to go:

The Pizza Promoter.
We can create a website for you. We can make vidoes for you.

Also check out: Hawaii Business Videos

pizza on earth,

Albert Grande
The Pizza Promoter.

When you are with Scott Weiner you are in the presence of a dynamo. A dynamo of pizza history, pizza knowledge, and pizza passion.

The following video gives you a taste of the tour. From the minute the Pizza Tour starts you are in a whirl wind of energy and pure pizza stories.

The beginnning of the video shows Scott’s style as he discusses various pizzas you will be sampling on the tour. The video was recorded  at Lombardi’s in New York. Opened in 1905, Lombardi’s is the true birthplace of pizza in the United States.

The second part of the video is a one  on one interview with Scott as he explains how he got into the pizza tour business.

It was actually quite by accident. He started by taking friends of his on tours of New York. Soon this started to be quite a habit.

Here’s the video:

 Visit Scott’s Pizza Tours, here.

Scott's Pizza Tours

In this interview with Roberto Caporuscio of Keste Pizzeria and Vino, he reveals his inspiration for making great pizza.

Roberto explains his original inspiration for pizza was his mentor. Now he is inspired by his cusomers.

From the Keste website here is some history of Roberto:

It was…in Napoli, the birthplace of pizza, that Roberto went to study the art and craft of this culinary delight with the most talented masters of the Neapolitan pizza makers. After training with the best, he opened two successful pizzerias in Pittsburgh, followed by A Mano in Ridgewood, NJ . Each endeavor brought critical acclaim from the culinary industry, as well as the rave reviews and articles in books and magazines.

While I discussed pizza with Roberto, he revealed to me his true inspiration for pizza:

My customers are my inspiration…I want to do better every day for them. Every morning when I wake up I want to do a better job for them.

He also talks about his new pizza school. You can learn the art of pizza making from Roberto and his world reknowned staff.

What I was most impressed when I did this interview was how friendly and happy, Roberto was. He allowed his customers to come right up to him while he was making pizza. He answered all of their questions. He took time for them. He shared all of his knowledge about pizza. And he did it with a smile on his face.

Roberto is truly an inspirational pizzaiolo. A great person, making great pizza. What a combination.

You can get more information about Robert’s Pizza School, here. The school will teach you not only how to make pizza but also how to make mozzarella.

Roberto Caporuscio is a true Legend of Pizza . He has passion and belief. He truly cares about his customers and his pizza.

Keste Pizzeria and Vino
271 Bleecker Street
New York, New York 10014

212-243-1500

Another Pizza from Keste:

A simple pizza from Keste

You can watch  Roberto Working Dough, here.

Respectfully submitted,

Albert Grande
The Pizza Promoter

And if you want to get into The Pizza Business, get a copy of the Pizza Business Papers. you can discover all the inside tricks of how to start a pizza business.

Here is another great resource:

Sky Dylan Robbins is a filmmaker with an unbridled passion for food. you can hear it in her voice. You can feel it in her film.

Her latest project,  Un Americana in Italia chronicles her food adventures in Italy. The film is comprised of 12 different episodes. Each episode takes you on a different quest to discover the truth about food. She gives us an understanding of why we are so obsessed with food.

After watching a clip of her discuss pizza, I knew I had to interview her. She introduces us to  the master pizzaioli of Naples. This is the birthpalce of Pizza. Thanks for the introduction, Sky.

Her film tells us about ourselves and why our love affair with food will continue.

Sky takes you inside the underground secrets of how various food is produced. She also reveals the passions of those who create these amazing foods.

Food for Sky is magical. She celebrates the creation of food. She celebrates the consumption of food. Eating and sharing food together is an event that deserves to be celebrated.

Here is a preview of her film:

In our interview Sky reveals the following:

• How she started a love affair with Italy and Italain food
• How she planned and executed her film
• The magical events that allowed her to complete each episode
• The truth about the Water Buffalo in Italy
• Why Bologna is one of the most special food destinations on the planet
• The inside secrets to the Best Flour in Italy, Caputo
• The true passion of the master pizza makers in Naples

and much much more. Please listen to this interview, and download it if you wish.

I would greatly appreciate any of your comments about this amazing interview with Sky Dillon Robbins

You can listen to an incredible interview with Sky Dylan Robbins below. Download this interview for later listening Right  Click Here (and save).

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This interview is sponsored by The Happy Italian Cook Book. Discover the Secrets to Italian Food Passion, click here now.

Billions of used pizza boxes pile up in landfills every year. Billions.

These pizza boxes cannot be composted due to grease.

Here's what William Betz told me:

Americans consume 3 billion, yes, 3 BILLION with a B, cardboard pizza boxes every year…in the 2 minutes you've spent reading this message…12,000 have been used…and they are NOT recyclable as they are contaminated with/ grease and foodstuffs…

There is a solution to the pizza box problem clogging our landfills. We can go green with our pizza. The answer is the hybrid pizza box. This innovation offers an alternative to just dumping used pizza boxes in the trash.

  Mike Sudia of  DMS Innovation is the inventor of the reusable pizza box.

The Hybrid Pizza Box

In the following interview, Mike explains how he came up with the concept of the reusable pizza box.

He also discusses:

• Why he invented the hybrid pizza box
• The 7 steps that cardboard boxes go through leaving a large carbon footprint
• Why card board pizza boxes cannot be recycled or composted
• How hybrid pizza box can be used over 1.000 times
• How have consumers reacted to this pizza box
• His first invention the "batting buddy"

Listen and/or download below:

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If you are interested in the Reusable Pizza Box (The Hybrid Pizza Box), you can contact,

Mike Sudia at

DMS Innovation
416 Antelope Ridge Way     
City, State:  Danville,  California      94506 
Phone:  925-786-9054    Fax: 925-648-2402

Website: http://dmsinnovation.com/

pizza on earth,

Albert Grande

The Pizza Promoter

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I was excited to hear the news that our friend  had made it to the finals of Food Network’s: “Ultimate Recipe Showdown”, 

I was very proud to hear our own Gail Churinetz, a winner of the Pizza Therapy Recipe Contest, was being featured on The Food Network.

Gail has been a long time supporter of Pizza Therapy   and she is like a member of the family.

Gail writes:

Hello Albert….

Just wanted to keep you posted regarding my Pizza making…..I am the one that won your competition several years back…I am going to be on Food Network “Ultimate Recipe Showdown”,  I made the finals and my recipe….. “Crawfish & Andouille Sausage Pizza”.

 

Gail the $25,000 winner with Guy

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I was even more excited when Gail gave me the news that she had won, the “Ultimate Recipe Showdown”

I knew I had to interview her. And this exclusive interview follows.

Gail shares:

• How she came up with the recipe
• What she did to enter the contest
• What she asked Flo Consiglio, wife of Sal Consiglio
• Her secret ingredient that she took from Sally’s Apizza on Wooster Street in New Haven, Connecticut
• Why this helps her make award winning pizza
• What goes on behind the scenes at the Food Network
• What she will do with her $25,000
• Her other $5,000 bonus prizes as part of her winnings
• Inside pizza tricks and tips
• Her secret hobby and passions
• Why you should enter your own recipe

Gail holds nothing back in this interview.

You can listen right here, or download it for later listening if you wish.

Listen below:

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You can follow Gail on her Facebook page:

Gail Wallenta Churinetz

Thanks so much for this great interview Gail.

pizza on earth,

albert grande

The Pizza Therapy Pizza Blog

For more great recipes you can check out below:

Steve Lieber knows pizza….

He is a member of the World Pizza Champions. He has an incredible story to tell. In the following interview he tells his pizza story.

He explains how he got into the pizza business. He learned how to make pizza. He worked in a number of restaurants and decided he wanted to become a master pizziolo.

According to Steve's bio:

Over the years, Lieber established himself working in high volume restaurants that posed many challenges and soon found great success…A self-described “pizza fanatic,” Steve regularly travels the globe to attend conventions and further his knowledge of the industry to perfect techniques and capitalize on the latest in pizza trends.

 

You can watch Steve make his truffle pizza, here:

 

 

 

Listen to the interview with Steve below:

In the following interview, he explains how he:

• learned to make pizza
• how his passion for pizza led him to try to master the coal fired oven pizza
• The differences between a coal fired oven and other pizza ovens in making pizza
• how he met Tony Gemignani.
• What happened to his pizza making, after attending The International School of Pizza
• How he won the Best Pizza in the United States Award
• He give lots of pizza making tips for the home pizza maker
• He explodes the myth of using water to make pizza
• Where he is going with pizza
• How giving back to the community has helped his business

This is an incredible pizza interview. The highlight may be his "Babe Ruth" moment during a pizza contest.

Steve has many secrets to share and he holds nothing back in the following interview.

Steve Lieber is truly one of the Legends of Pizza.

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Jon F. on the state of Pizza in New Haven, Italy and beyond!

Jon F. has been around pizza his entire life. As a matter of fact member’s of his family owned an Italain Restaurant. It was not until he went away to college did his entire perspective of pizza change.  One of his friends took him to Pepe’s Pizza in New Haven and this event transformed his notion of pizza.

The first thing he noticed was the enourmous coal fired oven. “What manner of beast is this?” he wondered. As soon as he had his first taste of New Haven pizza, he realized, his total idea of pizza had changed, forever. He ended up going back again and again.

This taste of Pepe’s inspired him to go on a quest to discover incredible pizza. He started making his own pizza based on some of the pizza he tasted in his travels. He would eventually go to the West Coast of the United States and sample pizzas created by Brian Spangler of Apizza Scholls. He was drawn to Italy to find some of the best pizza that country had to offer.  This is his story a story of pizza discovery.

I’m pleased to present to you a wonderful pizza interview. Noted pizza expert Jon F. shares all of his secrets including:

• His take on what makes Pepe’s Pizza so special.
• Inside information about  Sally’s Apizza on Wooster Street 
• The real secret to Pepe’s Pizza and Sally’s Apizza
• Jon’s thoughts on Italian Pizza
• The difference between Italian pizza and American Pizza
• The Pizza of Portland
• Apizza Scholls
• Taste Bud
• The most important thing you can do when you cook your own pizza.
• more pizza tips and tricks.

Jon’s interview is informative, lively and interesting.

He is a pizza expert and he reveals many tips and tricks.

This interview is sponsored by The Pizza Therapy Pizza Book.