The Wood-Fired Blog
Wood-Fired Croatia (or more accurately, Istria)
Aug 29, 2013We just returned from a very nice trip to Croatia. I have wanted to explore the Dalmatian coast for years, and the timing was right this summer. Our older daughter spent the summer working on campus in Boston (a very cool research project on pre-fab building using 3D modeling software and CNC laser equipment) and she had two weeks off before the start of school. And we put it to... Read More
August 2013 | No. 53; New Logo and Pizza Quest’s Big Reveal
Aug 13, 2013Welcome to our Wood-Fired Newsletter August 2013. Notice anything different? After 10 years, we have updated the Forno Bravo logo. It is now making its way into all things Forno Bravo, including our Wood-Fired Newsletter header. Read more below about the update. As you can imagine, over the past decade, one of the highlights of our work at Forno Bravo is hearing from new oven owners: the excitement, the culinary... Read More
New Forno Bravo Logo
Aug 13, 2013All good things must come to an end. After ten years, we have decided to retire our medieval bread baker, the Papyrus font, and our old logo. We have opted for a more modern look, with a crisp font and a stylized flame. We really like it, and we hope you do as well. The new logo is now working its way into all things Forno Bravo, including Fornobravo.com,... Read More
Orange County Register
Aug 10, 2013Make Pizza Like a Pro At Home By NIYAZ PIRANI The Orange County Register PIZZA AT HOME: This is one style of Forno Bravo pizza oven. FORNO BRAVO It’s not delivery. And now it doesn’t even have to be DiGiorno. That delicious pizza can be cooked in your own home pizza oven. Forno Bravo can turn your home into a pizzeria with a first – a new line of authentic... Read More
July 2013 | No. 52; Peter’s Four-Minute Steaks and the Strada60
Jul 13, 2013Welcome to our Wood-Fired Newsletter July 2013 I hope this summer has brought many wonderful times with family and friends around your wood-fired ovens. With back-to-school days approaching and vacations coming to a close, this is the time of year to savor those final days of summer – and look forward to all the fall season brings. On that note, we’re featuring our Strada60 oven in this month’s Wood-Fired Newsletter... Read More
Calling all Architects and Restaurant Designers (with DXF and DWG files)
Jul 13, 2013We have started the process of re-publishing all of our oven drawings in CAD formats for architects and kitchen and restaurant designers — going forward our oven technical specification sheets with be available in PDF, DXF and DWG. The first models are the Modena2GFA120, 140, 160 and 180, and they are available in the FB Library. The Modena2GOK ovens will be published shortly. http://www.fornobravo.com/library If you are an architect or... Read More
An Open Letter Re: the Community Cookbook
Jun 30, 2013Forno Bravo Community Cookbook Everyone’s Invited to Join In!Hello, Wood-Fired Oven Lovers.Okay. I think we made a mistake. We included two pieces of similar news regarding the Forno Bravo Community Cookbook in the same publication (our June newsletter) – and it was confusing for our readers. We’re sorry about that.So, let me try to clarify things here.As you probably know, we recently started a special program to provide Primavera ovens to a few... Read More
Pizza Ovens, Photographs, and Photoshop
Jun 26, 2013We had a funny interchange on the Forno Bravo Facebook page a while ago, when we posted a photo of the Andiamo oven with what looked like a photoshopped background of a business park. The basic question was — “why would you Photoshop an oven in front of a business park background?” The answer to the question was, “we didn’t.” We just used Photoshop to get rid of a couple... Read More
Forno Bravo Meets Reality TV
Jun 25, 2013I would not know a Kardashian from Nick and Jessica, but I was told that there was a Forno Bravo pizza ovenon one of the Kardashian TV shows the other night. Now that is cool. The intersection of wood-fired cooking and celebrity. Read More
