Movable Feasts: Brick Oven Pizza Goes Mobile
NOVEMBER 16, 2010
A few of mankind’s oldest inventions have given gourmet pizza purveyors a cult following and a (relatively) low-tech way to put their pies on 
wheels.
The recent food truck craze has made the sight of homemade cuisine with fresh ingredients on street corners a familiar one, so it doesn’t seem too surprising when thick, rustic-looking pizzas topped with farm-fresh cheese on handmade dough emerge from custom-made portable ovens. Dave Sclarow, the culinary talent behind the Brooklyn-based brick-oven pizza-on-wheels known as Pizza Moto, has spent several years winning converts to his perfectly-baked, hand-sized pies. The oven, though, is the real star here: a homemade wonder in concrete and brick, mounted on a boat trailer. Sclarow built it by hand in his parents’ Philadelphia driveway (via NY Times).
Another mobile oven rolls through Ovid, New York (near Ithaca) regularly. A local couple fire up the copper-clad cooker—known as The Copper Oven—to provide gourmet-pizza-loving residents with their fix of the cherished pies. A growing flock of similar ovens has been roving the Pacific Northwest as well (via Slice). The mobile pizza oven is hardly a newfangled idea: it has its origins in Naples, Italy, where the original pizza vendors cooked in open-air wood-fired ovens mounted on wheeled carts. Boulder, CO-based company The Fire Within specializes in mobile pizza ovens; they even hold workshops to provide step-by-step instruction for anyone interested in making one of their own and taking it on the road.
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