🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕 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 rather, chronologically. The first pizzas sold in

We Bought The Pizza Farm

Jan 11th, 2022 1h 30m

🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕 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 clear. We’ll also clarify California-style p

Burning Down The House

Dec 28th, 2021 1h 21m

🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕 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 the first steps to building your own oven ar

Frankencheeses & Cherries On Top

Dec 14th, 2021 1h 22m

🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕 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 makers of DIY mozzarella kits, how Wisconsin br

Aplomb Tomato

Nov 29th, 2021 56m 56s

🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕 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 (the most famous/infamous), Piennolo (known f

Know When to Hold Them, Know When to Fold Them

Nov 23rd, 2021 47m 43s

🍕🍕🍕🍕 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? People are pushing the boundaries of what co

Agent Double Zero

Nov 16th, 2021 37m 9s

🍕🍕🍕 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 burnt dough? Whether you like a soft crust with

History of the Pizza World, Part II

Nov 9th, 2021 52m

🍕🍕 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 change. What we’ve learned so far is that pizz

Pizza Unfit For A Queen

Nov 1st, 2021 40m 25s

🍕 Welcome to the Modernist Pizza Podcast. This is episode 1: “The Myth of Margherita and the Transmutation of Pizza History”.Along with Nathan Myhrvold, founder of Modernist Cuisine, and its head chef Francisco Migoya, who together co-authored

Modernist Pizza Podcast trailer

Mar 16th, 2022 29s

🍕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’s most popular food.🍕Each slice of this ser

Pizza In Space

Feb 7th, 2022 1h 29m

🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕 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 best here — or at least freeze a few pies fo