Clockwise from bottom left: Nathan Winkler-Rhoades and his friends Betsy Ogburn, Lee Dicker (dumping sand), Laura Clancy, Patrick Toomey, and Laura Ogburn packed the sand foundation of his clay pizza oven.
(Matthew J. Lee/Globe Staff)
This pizza recipe begins with cement
How to make a pizza oven
Clockwise from bottom left: Nathan Winkler-Rhoades and his friends Betsy Ogburn, Lee Dicker (dumping sand), Laura Clancy, Patrick Toomey, and Laura Ogburn packed the sand foundation of his clay pizza oven.
(Matthew J. Lee/Globe Staff)
NEWTON - For most people, pizza is crust, sauce, and toppings. For Nathan Winkler-Rhoades, the perfect pie is a primordial experience that begins with shopping trips to the local sand and gravel yard and culminates in a backyard oven-building party with more than a dozen friends (including me) mixing cement and slapping together clay bricks. (Full article: 1159 words)
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