by Mark on December 1, 2011
Prompted by my cousin booking her Disney vacation today, Via Napoli popped into my head and I had to let her know that she has to go there. If you’re going to Disney World, then so do you! Via Napoli is a fairly new restaurant that opened in the Italian section of Epcot. Traditional wood-fired [...]
by Mark on September 24, 2011
That’s $38,495 USD at current exchange rates. Now I want an invite to his next pizza party. Forno Bravo’s latest tweet links to an article all about the ovens that Simon Cowell had imported from Italy, and James of Forno Bravo says that he’s willing to help you get a pizza oven into your home [...]
Molino Caputo, the mill in Naples that produces all of the Caputo flours, has been around for three generations according to Antimo Caputo: “…for all the artisans who make a high quality product to promote the concept of the idea of a pizza napoletana and the neapolitan product in the market in the US… There [...]
A report from recent customer, and brick oven baker, Kenny Hill who sells wood-fired ovens: Everything has arrived, just fine. I made some bread and a cake for my daughters birthday. The bread was out of this world. I have baked a lot of bread, but never tasted anything like this. The cake was also [...]
by Mark on November 7, 2010
While talking about our cheesy government this morning, Instapundit (Glenn Reynolds) brought up his dislike of the trend of putting too much cheese on pizza, saying “If I wanted cheese toast, I’d order cheese toast.” He quotes somebody else suggesting that, “You can get by with ordinary cheese; you can give people that pillow-soft puffed-up [...]
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. [...]
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.
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 [...]
by Mark on December 28, 2009
“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 [...]
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 [...]