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Gary's oven in his back yard.

Build a Brick Oven This Summer

by mark on May 17, 2010

It’s not too late to get started on your own backyard wood-fired brick oven. By mid-summer, you can be making delicious bread and pizza in it too.
Daniel Wing and Alan Scott are a pair of experts who authored The Bread Builders, filling it with their knowledge on building ovens and baking bread with it.
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How to Build a $20 Wood Fired Oven

by mark on April 14, 2010

OK, well… maybe more like $20 plus whatever it costs for a case of beer, which you will need to drink so that you can use the empty beer bottles for the construction of this fascinating oven.
Click the image for more pictures of it, and click here for building instructions.

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New Haven Pizza Wars

by mark on February 10, 2010

It’s only the customers who fight over who is the best on Wooster Street in New Haven.
Sally’s and Pepe’s are the main rivals. Abate’s (a relative newcomer) is included in this video, but I’ve never known them to be part of the debate.

Modern Pizza, another New Haven pizzeria that isn’t located on Wooster Street has [...]

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Gus and Pamela married in front of the ovens at Pepe's in New Haven, CT

“I do.”
Couple Marries at Pepe’s Pizza in New Haven.
Awww.
Congratulations to Gus and Pamela DaSilva, who came from Indiana to help his son get ready to deploy to Iraq. While they were here, decided to get married right there in Pepe’s.
I got a kick out of some things said in the comments section for the [...]

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Yale Students High on Pizza

by mark on April 26, 2009

Yale University is about five or six blocks away from New Haven’s famous Wooster St., where you can find some of the world’s best pizza at Sally’s and Pepe’s.
Yale has a brick oven of their own, located at their campus garden. They’re using it to lure students away from the downtown campus to learn more [...]

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