Santa Barbara Baker is Jonathon Schuhrke. Chef, pizza maker, and author of the Epic Outdoor Pizza Oven Cookbook. I live a pizza passionate lifestyle. That’s how I roll. Making pizzas is what my hands want to do. Thinking about pizza is what my mind wants to do. Eating pizza is what my mouth wants to do. The love is real.
The pursuit of producing the best possible pizza while giving honor to the ingredients and those behind them is what drives me. I find pizza to be the perfect unpretentious vehicle to open minds to new flavors while still providing classic pizza comfort. It’s the best food on earth.
I help spread the pizza passionate lifestyle through Santa Barbara Baker. I create all these pizzas at home with no special tricks, just a passion to the craft. A passion I enjoy sharing by helping others on their pizza making journey and learning new things in the process. The more people making and eating delicious pizza the better, this is something I really believe in.