Earlier this month, I made my first attempt at cooking pizza in an outdoor wood-fired oven. I've been making pizza for years: how hard can it be?

It turned out: pretty hard. The oven was way hotter than I'd appreciated and I burned a few crusts. My dough was too wet to slide nicely off my food, fire, cooking, pizza

Clearly those closest to me know me well, because for my birthday today I received a beautiful (portable: it packs into a bag!) wood-fired pizza oven, which I immediately assembled, test-fired, cleaned, and prepped with the intention of feeding everybody some homemade pizza using some of Robin's

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