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Pizza Cuz Review, Food Channel Pizza Show Pizza Cuz

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Here is an unbiased review the pizza show, Pizza Cuz.
Pizza Cuz is a show on the Cooking channel featuring Cousins Francis Garcia and Sal Basile.

Sal and Francis grew up on Staten Island during the time when this remote borough of New York was very much the outskirts of the city. And during the course of the show you are given flashback and insights into how things were for the Cousins as they grew up.
These two cousins come from a pizza family, they’ve been in the business for a while. They also opened Artichoke Basille’s in Manhattan in 2008.

The basic story focuses on the two cousins traveling around the country try out different kinds of pizza. In the course of the show, you get to meet some extremely extra ordinary pizzaiolo.

Because Sal and Francis are pizza masters themselves, you get a great insight into how the pizza is made, what kind of special ingredients are included as well as how the pizza is cooked. Of course Sal and Francis personally sample each and every pizza as it comes out of the oven.

Yeah, these boys like to eat.

And they showcase the unusual, the bizarre and the downright out of the ordinary.
For example, in one show they traveled to Portland Oregon and meet with Brian Spangler of Apiza Scholls. Brian created a masterpiece Manila Clam pizza for the boys. The most unusual thing was the fact that these clams were placed on the pizza unshucked. As the pizza cooked the clams opened up.

Pizza Cuz

Pizza Cuz!

Another time they ventured to Greenwich Village and made mozzarella with Roberto Carporusio of Keste’s Pizzeria. Now needless to say Roberto makes incredible pizza however before he became a pizza master, he was a master cheese maker.
Sal and Francis jumped right in and stood shoulder to shoulder with Roberto helping him with his creations.

The question is: is this good television? Is this a worthwhile show? Should you be wasting your time with Sal and Francis?

And the answer is absolutely YES. This is a wonderful show for anyone who loves pizza. The stories are there, the insights are shared. And the pizza secrets are reveled. Pizza Therapy supports the Pizza Cuz concept and we say: thanks Sal and Francis!

The Pizza Cuz at Artichokes

The Pizza Cuz at Artichokes

You guy rock the pizza world! If there is one shortcoming about Pizza Cuz, is that it is only a 30 minute show. To really get more in depth coverage of pizza requires at least 60 minutes. So let’s get with the program, Cooking Channel. Make pizza lovers happy:: increase Pizza Cuz to a full hour!

You can listen to and download an audio of this review below:

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New Insight on the $25,000 Pizza Recipe

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Our friend Gail won $25,000 from the Food Network, with her special pizza recipe. I have written about it before. I started thinking…sure the $25,000 pizza recipe was important, but in the Big picture of life, there is a more important lesson to be learned.
 
Here’s the story:
 
This is a true pizza story with a happy ending. An amazing pizza story!
 
Our friend Gail, decided to enter her pizza in a contest sponsored by the Food Network.
 
But let me give you a little background first.
 
Originally from Connecticut, Gail now lives in Tennessee.
 
Gail is a long time supporter of Pizza Therapy and she is like a member of the family.
 
A few years back, we had a pizza contest at Pizza Therapy and she won top prize.
 
It is a great recipe. The key ingredient, according to Gail, was the water. New Haven water.
 
The same water used by Pepe’s, Sally’s and Modern Apizza. These pizzerias are legendary pizzerias in New Haven.
 
Gail was tired of the pizza in Tennessee and created her own pizza recipes. And whenever she traveled up to New Haven, she would return with a suitcase full of water.
 
She decided her pizza was good enough to enter in a Pizza Showdown on the Food Network.
 
She was right. Out of 10,000 hungry applicants: she made the finals…
 
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The kicker is that during the filming of her Food Network pizza show, she traveled to New Haven, and went to Sally’s Apizza. She immediately went into the ladies room and filled a bottle of water. She used the water to make her award winning pizza!
 
(OK first she asked Flo Consiglio if it was OK. Flo said yes!)
 
And she won first prize. She won $25,000 for hep pizza recipe! Plus other prizes.
 
I recorded a great interview with Gail describing, how she entered the contest and how she was able to win.
 
You can listen to the entire interview (and download it if you wish) at this link:
 
 
If you wish, you can also listen at Pizza Therapy at this link:
 
 
I know you are going to love this interview. It is a great pizza tale full of adventure and as I said, a happy ending.
 
But here is the real nugget of gold from Gail’s story: we all have it in us to succeed at whatever we do.
 
We need to have faith and believe in ourselves. That is the real point to this interview!
 
For Gail it was a pizza recipe, for you it is whatever your dreams and hopes are.
 
So dream big my friends! I know you will accomplish whatever it is you set out to do!
 
I know all of your dreams and hopes will come true.
 
And Gail’s dream started out with a simple pizza recipe. She believed and she won.Big time.
 
So not only dream, but dream BIG!
Follow your dreams, follow your heart, follow your beliefs.
 
And never, ever, never, give up! Keep the faith, Yo!
 
Have passion, then take action.
 
I want to wish you all the best.
 
Enjoy this interview. Here are the links again:
 
You can listen to the entire interview (and download it if you wish) at this link:
 
 
If you wish, you can also listen at Pizza Therapy at this link:
 
 
I wish you the best in all that you do!
 
pizza on earth, good will to all,
 
albert
The Pizza Promoter
Pizza Therapy
 
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The $25,000 Pizza Recipe Interview

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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

]Gail and Guy on the Ultimate Recpe Challenge

 

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

 

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