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Name:Tony Gemignani Titles:
Pizzerias:Pyzano's Pizzeria - Co Owner Phone: 510-881-8878 Tony's Pizza Napoletana Scuola Itala ina Pizzaioli USA Pizzeria awards:1st Place Icon Estate Pizza Battle 2005 Top 10 Pizza Destinations in US Travel Channel Top 100 Independent Pizzerias Pizza Today Bay Areas Best 1995-2003 & 2005 Top 10 NY Style Pizza Contra Costa Times Chef of the West Sunset Magazine Pizza Maker of the Year Diablo Magazine Best Pizza Food Network Pizza Champions Challenge 2006 Best Pizza East Bay Express 2008 Certifications:Master Instructor Scuola Italiana Pizzaioli USA Scuola Italaina Pizzaioli Inducted into Guinness Book World Records:Biggest Pizza in 2 minutes continuously spinning (36.5 inches) 2006 Most Consecutive Rolls Across the Shoulders in 30 seconds (37 times) 2006 Inducted into the Legends of Pizza 2006 Location:Castro Valley, California Years in the Industry:19 yrs Highlighted TV appearences:Food Network's "Pizza Battle" Food Network's "World Pizza Challenge" Travel Channel's "Top 10 Pizza Destinations" Tonight Show w/ Jay Leno Good Morning America CNN The Today Show Best Damn Sports Show Tony Danza Show Food Network - Glutton for Punishment Discovery Times Food Network - Will Work For Food Talk Soup Steve Harvey's Big Time Home & Family Show Howie Mandel Show Early Show Nickelodian Hot Shots Real TV Soap Talk Food Network Extreme Cuisine Emeril Live Feb 2006 Oprah Bay Cafe California Heartland ABC Master of Champions Food Network Pizza Champions Challenge The Rachel Ray Show NBC's Identity International TV appearences:Gozalo! - Dominican Republic Pasion Gourmet - Dominican Republic Chèvere Nights - Dominican Republic Alfredo's Pizza Acrobatic Show, Bankok, Thailand HOE?ZO! Belgium, Netherlands The Generation Game, London, England Rai TV, Salsomaggiore, Italy Sabado Gigante - w/ Don Francisco Blue Peter Show, London, England Highlighted Performances:Pizzerelli Pizza Tour - Dominican Republic Lady & the Tramp 2 World Premiere Party Grand Opening Animal Kingdom Disney World Re Grand Opening Tomorrow Land Disneyland North Beach Festival SF Alameda County Fair Winter Carnival Parade St. Paul MN Francis For Coppolas Celebrity Pizza Toss SF Giants Pre game show, San Francisco, Ca Reno Great Italian Festival, Reno, Nevada Chicago Cubs pre-game show Camp Quality, St. Louise, MO Edika Food Show, Munich, Germany Reno Great Italian Festival Oakland Jack London Square Festival West Virginia Italian Heritage Festival Wichita Women's Basketball Half Time Show Celebrity Waiter Dinner, Covington LA Minnesota State Fair National Taste of Pizza New York, NY San Jose Festa Italiana, San Jose CA Winter Carnival Parade Minneapolis, MN Grand Marshal Rowel Ranch Rodeo Parade Castro Valley, CA Grand Old Day St. Paul, MN Green Mill Restaurant Grand openings Palermos Pizza Grand Opening Baton Rouge,LA US Food Service Show Sacramento, CA Van Eardon Show - Foremost Farms, MI Napics Soft Serve & Pizza Show Columbus, OH Sofo Show Toledo, OH Presto Food Show, KY GFS Food Show Central Valley Lemoore Pizza Festival 2006, CA Newport Beach Film Festival premiere Pizza the Movie Los Angeles CA Ghiradelli Chocolate festival SF CA SF 49ers Pasta Bowl, Santa Clara, CA Golden State Warriors Half Time Show Oakland, CA NACUFS 2008 Athens, Georgia PI Day San Francisco, CA Pizza Smackdown Napa, CA Pizza Academy Richmond, Virginia Golden State Warriors Show Oakland, CA |
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2-Millstone Coffee Proctor & Gamble
2-Green Mill Restaurants MN
1-Dolly's Restaurants MI
1-El Dorado Casinos NV
Chef For Hire:
Teaches in many cooking schools in California and Oregon.
Contact for booking information:
Private Cooking events or special appearances Schools:
Draegers (San Mateo)
Draegers (Menlo Park)
Sur la Table (Berkeley)
Sur la Table (San Francisco)
Mugnaini Wood Fired Ovens (Watsonville)
H.A.R.D.Hayward Area Recreational District (CV)
Dacor (San Bruno)
Ramekins (Sonoma Valley)
Andronico's (Danville, Walnut Creek)
Home Chef (S.F., Walnut Creek, San Jose, & Corte Madera)
Cooks, Pots, & Table Tops (Eugene OR)
Cookbook Author
Pizza: More Than 60 Recipes for Delicious Homemade Pizza (Paperback)
by Diane Morgan, Tony Gemignani, Scott Peterson (Photographer)
Available at Amazon.com
Book Description
Team five-time world pizza-throwing champion Tony Gemignani with acclaimed cookbook author Diane Morgan and the result is a cookbook that will turn any home kitchen into the best pizzeria in town. There are over 60 selections on the menu, including the thick, rounded-edge crust of classic Neapolitan pizza Margherita, the thin crust New York?style Italian Sausage and Three Pepper Pizza, and the stick-to-your-ribs, deep-dish kind, smothered in spinach and mozzarella. There are also plenty of new-fangled pizzas: layered with Thai curry flavored chicken or pineapple; cooked on the grill; even quick and easy versions using storebought crust. Aficionados will find six pizza dough recipes ready to suit anyone's crust preferences. Tips for proper use of such related gear as peels, stones, tiles, pans, grills, and ovens make this a complete pizza package. And with step-by-step dough tossing instructions from Tony himself, it's clear: When it comes to pizza?Pizza delivers.
Bio (click to read full bio)
9 Time World Pizza Champion
8 Time World Champion Pizza Acrobat
(1995, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, team 2005, 2006, 2007)
1 Time World Champion Pizza Maker 2007
Restaurant Owner, Author, Cooking Teacher, Consultant
President of the World Pizza Champions Inc.
Co owner Pyzano’s Pizzeria Castro Valley CA
2 Time Food Network Gold medallist
2 Time Guinness Book World Record Holder
Tony Gemignani was born on August 23, 1973. He grew up on a farm with mostly apricot and cherry orchards in Fremont California. Coming from an Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese family when his mom cooked she really cooked! Family dinners were always full of food and fun. Growing up with fruits and vegetables right from the farm, fresh ingredients were a staple in the Gemignani house. In 1991 when Tony was eighteen, his brother Frank who was twenty-two had the idea to open a pizzeria in Castro Valley, California. Frank asked Tony who was just out of high school, to come help him out. Soon Pyzano’s Pizzeria was born. Tony carried the title as pizza thrower, which wasn’t much until a kid came into the restaurant one day and asked him to do a trick. Tony said, “I can’t do any tricks”, and the kid said “we’ll you should practice some tricks!” Tony then started to do tricks for customers as they came in and the rest is history...
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