Building a Pizza Oven: What I’m Not Going To Do

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Quick reality check on what’s not going to be going on in my backyard: flying in three trowel wielding Italians from the old country over to SoBur (South Burnet) to stomp around my sod. From Slice on Nella Grassano’s new restaurant in Chicago, “Nella Pizzeria Napoletana“. The oven itself is a point of personal pride for Grassano. Through her father, she reached out to three oven builders in Naples, a 70-year-old man and his two nephews, and brought them to Chicago to build an oven out of tufo, an Italian brick made from volcanic ash, and volcanic sand.

Not that I don’t have my homies, hanging in the old country, tufo bricks in hand, waiting to jet over. I just don’t think I can afford what’s in their rider. Wine is a currency, people.

Previously:  Building A Pizza Oven

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