The Betz Factor

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Grand Tour Pulls Out All the Stops
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Bruce Schoenfeld
Issue: July 31, 2006

In the kitchen of his house in suburban Woodinville, just outside Seattle, winemaker Bob Betz presses out pizza dough on a marble counter. He adds San Marzano tomatoes, olives and tissue-thin slices of prosciutto.