Pizza Marketplace Podcast
Pizza Marketplace Podcast
Networld Media Group
The 4:30 am grind: How a cotton-field startup turned into an artisan pizza empire
25 minutes Posted Mar 11, 2026 at 10:00 am.
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In episode of the Pizza Marketplace Podcast, host Mandy Detwiler, editor of Pizza Marketplace, talks to Joe Carlucci, founder and owner of Valentina's Pizzeria & Wine Bar in Alabama. Carlucci, who has dozens of years in pizza, is a member of the World Pizza Champions and a leader in the industry. Carlucci opened Valentina's, named after his daughter, in the midst of COVID. Prior to that, he'd owned a pizza food truck and would take it to neighborhoods to provide pizzas to neighborhoods du...