“We can learn to be cooks but we must be born knowing how to roast.” -Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin as quoted in Jeffrey Steingarten’s “As the Spit Turns” in It Must Have Been Something I Ate (Knopf). “Some people roast a chicken and then peel off and discard the skin. What is the point? If you [...]
Posts Tagged ‘wood-fired oven’
First Fire
After a lot of hard work we finally reached that milestone of lighting the first fire in our wood-fired oven last Saturday, July 24. Early May when we broke ground and were digging in very cold rain seems like such time ago now. I’ll be writing about more about what it took to get us [...]
Queen Margherita’s Pizza
Readers will know that this is the summer we build an oven at my family’s cottage that is designed to cook, among other things, pizza. Hopefully, this is enough to solidly establish my credibility as someone who takes pizza seriously. Either way, I like eating pizza and was pleased to hear of a new authentic [...]
A Strong Foundation
In my April post about building a wood-fired oven I wrote about turning the corner from just talking about the project to actually doing it. As proof that we were getting serious about the endeavour I posted a picture of our ever-expanding resource library that included the plans we intended to use. We now have [...]
