Modernist Pizza Podcast
1) Modernist Pizza Podcast trailer
🍕Modernist Pizza Podcast will record the science, history, and culture of pizza, all told through in-depth interviews with the book’s coauthors and the people who are shaping the future of the world’...Show More
2) Pizza In Space
🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕 As this is the last episode of Season 1, we’ll take a moment to reflect on pizza’s long and winding path to pervasiveness. It’s impossible to put pizza in a box, but we’ll do our ...Show More
3) La Boca & Tokyo Marinara
🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕 Pizza is a universal language, one of love, and legend. We’ll start with a trip to South America, by way of Argentina and Brazil … No, we’re not doing this alphabetically, but rathe...Show More
4) We Bought The Pizza Farm
🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕 Don’t worry, we’ll address the elephant in the room: why does Modernist Cuisine think Portland, Oregon, is the pizza capital of the United States? Francisco will make this abundantly ...Show More
5) Burning Down The House
🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕 We survey the multitude of pizza making ovens around the world, why wood is the romantic choice for fuel source, how one pizzeria had to burn to the ground to reinvent themselves, what ...Show More
6) Frankencheeses & Cherries On Top
🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕 Why is buffalo mozzarella considered a luxury cheese, and what makes it different from regular mozzarella, anyway? And why don’t more people make mozzarella at home? We’ll talk to the mak...Show More
7) Aplomb Tomato
🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕 Why is the humble plum tomato the gold standard for pizza sauce? According to the AVP, there are only three tomato varieties permitted to make real authentic Pizza Napoletana: San Marzano (...Show More
8) Know When to Hold Them, Know When to Fold Them
🍕🍕🍕🍕 Dough is a living, breathing thing. It rises, it reacts to its environment: temperature, time … it’s an extensible object that shapes the way we interact with pizza. But how malleable is it? ...Show More
9) Agent Double Zero
🍕🍕🍕 What’s the secret behind a perfectly charred Neapolitan pizza? Answer: the cornicione—that famed leopard-spotting that blisters around the edges. But is this a sign of superior pie, or just bur...Show More
10) History of the Pizza World, Part II
🍕🍕 In Episode 1, we gave pizza a home. Now that we’ve let it into all of ours, let’s see how pizza plays a role in personal histories — from that of pizza champions to those championing pizza for ch...Show More