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Our in-house blog for all of the Maine Wood Heat Family to share. From updates about installed heaters to tips for getting the most out of wood heat to recipes that bring out the best in your wood fired oven and much more!

Fall’s Bounty.

by albie ~ October 30th, 2008
Oct. 26, 08 Hard frosts did not come to our little farm in Norridgewock this year until mid-October. Dave Luce took time to bank the house with hay bales and plastic and also split and stacked about six cords of wood in new half pallet cribs that he built ...

And we thought 150 years of oven building experience was good!

by joe ~ October 24th, 2008
An archeological dig in Northern Greece recently turned up what remains of a 6,000 year old farmhouse. Among the artifacts unearthed at the site are two brilliantly preserved wood fired ovens, a testament to the good taste of our ancient ancestors. While Le Panyol's 150 year history--which began with brick ...

Le Panyol Provence Gets National Attention.

by joe ~ October 23rd, 2008
The Kansas City Star recently had a nice piece on our new Le Panyol wood fired oven, the Provence. The piece highlights the oven's ability to redefine the home chef's concept of the pizza status quo (and pizza ovens in general!). Click here for the original article. ...

Bay Area Bootcamp for Bakers.

by joe ~ October 23rd, 2008
October 23-26, Cindy Mushet, author of the recently released 450-page mega-tome The Art & Soul of Baking will be in Sur la Table stores throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. At locations in Los Gatos, San Francisco and Palo Alto she ...

The Heart of the Home Within a House.

by joe ~ October 23rd, 2008
In Skandinavia, it seems that a new creative idea for improving home energy efficiency emerges every day. Take, for example, this article on treehugger.com (a hip little enviro-blog now owned by none other than the Discovery Channel), featuring ...