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 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 [...]
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 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 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 [...]
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 [...]