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Leah Scurto owns, operates, and is the head pizzaiola at Pizzaleah in Windsor, California. 

She first started making pizzas in 1997 and spent years honing her skills working in a small Bay Area pizza chain, Pizza My Heart. In mid-2018, Leah moved to the wine country in Sonoma County to branch out on her own and began the process of creating Pizzaleah.  

Since opening in March 2020, Pizzaleah has been included multiple times on the San Francisco Chronicle’s list of the 25 Top Restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area and was recently awarded the Seal of Approval by the Slow Food Russian River Chapter. 

Leah has won awards in pizza competitions across the United States and in Naples, Italy. She is a 5-time pizza champion, and in 2022, she was featured on Hulu’s original show, Best in Dough. In 2021, she was recognized as one of Pizza Today Magazine’s Rising Stars of the Pizza Industry. 

Leah is a Master Instructor at Marra Forni‘s Pizza University and also an instructor at Central Milling‘s Artisan Baking Center in Petaluma, CA. 

She has also had the honor of judging both international pizza and beer competitions.