Wood, gas and thermal mass

Q&A with with Daniel Young of Young & Foodish, Daniel asks the questions and I get carried away with the answers. How did Bertha’s get started?  Bertha’s what we christened our first oven, a Sheffield Steel, brick lined Garden Oven where we began the...

Comfort Zones

If you already subscribe to our newsletter you’ll know all this, if you’d like to subscribe, click here. It’s over a year since I travelled 5000 miles to work at Pizzicletta, where did that go? Back then I still had the day job and was about to take a leap...

Making Mozz

What’s Rhianna’s favourite cheese? Mozzarella-ella-ella. Apologies. Even as cheese jokes go that’s a shocker. I’ve been wanting to make mozzarella for some time and inspired by the gents at Pizzicletta who are chuffed with the results of their own cheese making, I...

Rocket not Arugula

24 hours travelling, Government shutdown, elocution lessons and silly amounts of pizza. Flagstaff is a long way from the UK, I appreciate that now, it’s also much higher and hence colder than I’d envisaged, so much for shorts and t-shirt desert weather. Yet it’s a...