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“Four pizzas on the menu, with no fancy-pants toppings. Anthony Mangieri does one thing at Una Pizza Napoletana, and he does it the very best way he can.” Watch Anthony Mangieri in this video.

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Giving a Pizza Maker the Gift of Pizza?

by Mark on February 14, 2012

Bad taste? Or not? Did I pull a faux pas by giving my parents a gift certificate for Bufalina — a nearby, wood-fired, gourmet pizza restaurant — when they have their own wood-fired oven and make pizza themselves? Here was my thinking: Dad’s always wrangled into making pizza for dozens of guests. He built his [...]

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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 [...]

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Porri Pizza from Bufalina in Guilford, CT

Matt and Melissa busy at work in their pizza making work area.

by Mark on October 22, 2011

A new wood-fired brick oven pizzeria, named Bufalina, opened close to where we live. We’re really happy to have them nearby because now it’s a 10-minute drive for delicious pizza instead of 25-30 minutes. Bacon and onion pizza is a family favorite, so on our first trip, we ordered the Porri pizza. Porri is the [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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A16 Pizza: How They Make The Perfect Pie

by Mark on September 23, 2009

Here is a terrific video showing how A16 in San Francisco makes their Neapolitan pizza: It’s just after 8am and now I just want to skip breakfast and go get some lunch. The only thing that’s stopping me, the trip from CT to CA. I could go to Pepe’s or Sally’s I guess. That’s only [...]

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