Archive for November, 2008

It seems a wood fired oven on a trailer (aka pizza trailer) has been generating quite a stir in Brooklyn, New York. It’s proprietor, Dave Sclarow, is chef de cuisine at Lunetta in Boerum Hill and the oven is his culinary/construction side project.

Sclarow christened his homemade oven, dubbed “Pizza Moto,” at a friend’s wedding reception and has been working the local farmer’s market ...

From a great piece on Ciril in the Providence (RI) Journal.

CHEF CIRIL HITZ’S BAGEL DOUGH

For the dough:

• 3 cups bread flour
• 3 cups high gluten flour (see note)
• 2 cups plus 2 tablespoons water at 72 degrees
• 1 1/2 teaspoons instant yeast
• 2 1/2 teaspoons salt
• 4 teaspoons diastatic malt (see note)
• For the water mixtures:
• 8 cups water
• 2/3 cups honey

Place bread flour, high gluten flour, water, instant yeast, salt and diastatic malt into the bowl of a stand mixer and mix on low speed (first speed) ...

In case you missed the wonder feature on our friend Ciril Hitz’s Le Panyol in the special Fall issue of Yankee Magazine, you can now read it online. It’s a great feature on the oven that we built for Ciril and his wife Kylee at their home in southern Massachusetts.

Ciril–a pastry chef, instructor and department head at Johnson & Wales University in ...