"This is my peaceful time. It's like I'm a conductor standing before the symphony," says Richer, who is dressed on this weekday afternoon... Even in a discipline filled with quirky perfectionists, Richer is known as a man of obsessive routine and ritual."
"Over the years, he has drawn up charts on how to evaluate the perfect tomato (the 'Tomato Evaluation Rubric') and the perfect mozzarella ('Oh, I could talk to you for hours about cheese')."
"At Razza, he keeps a large plastic box on hand, filled with esoteric gizmos for measuring things like the sugar content and viscosity of a canned tomato..."
"Dan's pizza notebook was about 200 pages when we worked together, and that was 11 years ago. I can't imagine how big it is now," says chef Nick Anderer.
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