MIRIAM WEISKIND

Miriam Weiskind is the founder, and head pizzaiola of The Za Report, is one of the founding pizza popups hailing from NYC and is currently taking up residency in Portland, Oregon.

Miriam temporarily moved westward to bring her passion and art in pizza making to Portland. For the past 4 years, Miriam has been doing restaurant takeovers and pop-ups throughout NYC.

In 2020 Miriam traded the corporate life as a creative director to study the art of making pizza, with a goal to create something truly magical for the pizza community.

Prior to embarking on a career as a pizza maker, Miriam spent about a decade in New York’s Pizza Community helping build the brand behind Scott’s Pizza Tours educating thousands of pizza lovers behind the history and science behind pizza.

Inspired by her mother, who passed away from COVID in 2021, Miriam decided to give back and do good within her community. Baking over 5,000 pizzas during the pandemic in a 350’ Brooklyn apartment, the pizzas were given out for free to help New Yorkers who didn’t have a job or were needing a reason to smile.

Miriam’s “paying pies forward” became a global phenomenon—written up by the New York Times, Forbes, Thrillist, Food & Wine, covered by VICE, featured on Hulu’s Best in Dough, appearing on Good Morning America, and The Today Show.

Most recently Miriam competed on The Food Network’s Chopped and was written up in the New York Times by Pete Wells as “one of the best pizzas to eat in NYC”—both her Neapolitan and Sicilian styles.

For her Neopolitan-ish pizza, Miriam spends 4 days preparing her dough whereas her Sicilian take 7 days to make each pie. They truly are a work of love and art.

When not making and baking pizza, Miriam spends time training ultra trail running and is a proud mom to her pup Frankie Jo Buttons.