The Wood-Fired Blog
More Snow Pizza Stories
Jan 25, 2013Pizza in The Cold and Snow We’ve been getting some great photos and stories on pizza in the cold and snow. Check out this one: Ottawa Valley eastern Ontario-Canada While it was not that cold when I took this shot before X-mas , last night we had a pizza party and I made 10 pizzas while it was -31C [about 24 below zero F.] the oven was hot [.2 minute... Read More
$15M Pizza Oven with a Mansion (and three guest houses) Thrown in for Free
Jan 23, 2013Wayne Gretzky is selling his mansion and three guest houses for $15M, but from this headline, you would think that his pizza oven is the property’s best feature. Who knows. Maybe it is. From the Inquisitr: Wayne Gretzky Selling Mansion: $15 Million Pad Has Outdoor Pizza Oven, Three Guest Homes Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/492989/wayne-gretzky-selling-mansion-15-million-pad-has-outdoor-pizza-oven-three-guest-homes/#TcljSc1fzOfPFIDZ.99 Read More
The (Nearly Final) Pizza Oven Contest Photos
Jan 23, 2013We have posted the web pages on Fornobravo.com with the submitted photos for the Winter 2013 pizza oven photo contest! There are still a few days to go for submissions, and we are still getting more photos — so keep ’em coming. We are getting some nice pictures from our community in the north. Click here to see the photos page. We’ll be picking the finalists and posting the poll... Read More
Pizza Sorrentina in the Wall Street Journal
Jan 23, 2013Friends and family are always sending me interesting articles and recipes on pizza and pizza ovens — and I’ve been meaning to post this one for a while. This incredible Pizza Sorrentina Sorrento is located on a peninsula on the southern edge of the Bay of Naples. According to our friends at Wikipedia: Sorrento (Neapolitan: Surriento) is a small town in Campania, southern Italy, with some 16,500 inhabitants. It is a popular tourist destination... Read More
A Novel of Ancient Rome
Jan 14, 2013You know that I have always found ancient Rome interesting (to this day I get a kick just thinking about the wood ovens in Pompeii), and so does my wife — who recently published a historical novel on Galla Placidia, empress of Rome in the mid 400’s. She started researching the book when we were living in Florence, and has now put the finishing touches on the novel, and has... Read More
New Fire Within Workshops
Jan 14, 2013Our good friends at The Fire Within (Bolder, CO) will be holding a new workshop targeted at everyone who is thinking of getting into wood-fired oven catering. They’ve been doing this for years, and they make great trailer ovens (in lots of different shapes and sizes for different types of catering), they exclusively use Forno Bravo ovens (yay), and their workshops provide a great deal of practical, hands-on information that... Read More
Wood-Fired Pizza Truck and Snow
Jan 14, 2013Wood-Fired Pizza Truck and Snow I really like this one. Chris Woodbeck Ilion, NY Best way to melt snow is with fire. Read More
January 2013 | No. 46; We’ve Moved & Kale-Leek Gratin
Jan 13, 2013Welcome to our Wood-Fired Newsletter January 2013 Happy 2013 from Forno Bravo! We hope this newsletter finds you well and enjoying the new year. It’s been a busy but exciting time for us, as we have moved into our new facility. Read more about our new space at right. Our photo contest, winter edition, continues. We’ve received some excellent entries of beautiful ovens showcased in the snow and look forward... Read More
Cooking in a Foreign Oven
Jan 10, 2013For years I have been taking advantage of travel to experiment with different flours and ovens, so it was fun this Xmas season working with British grains and a European-style convection oven in the house that we rented for a week. Of course, it is easy to make fun of any country’s supermarket bread, and British bread is no different. Supermarket bread is really awful. So I bought a bag... Read More
