Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Pizza What the World Needs Now in Nashville Department: Wood-Fired Street Pizza
Posted by Jim Ridley on Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 3:03 PM
The post in question concerns Moto Bene (love the name), an Atlanta food cart that dispenses wood-fired pizza from a pull-behind oven. Selections include grass-fed beef, arugula and spring onion; a three-cheese pie; and bacon, spring onion and bok choi.
Even after clicking the link, I wasn't convinced such a thing actually existed. It sounded too good to be true, like snipe meat or Shmoos. And yet I was inching my way through the Dust Bowl haze at Bonnaroo two weeks ago when I saw a line 50 people long. They were bellied up to a wood-stoked portable oven and a steady stream of crisp little $10 Frisbee-sized pizzas, featuring fresh veggies atop a bubbled and blackened crust.
I don't believe it was a Moto Bene stand, and I did not try one — the angel on my shoulder pointed the way to Stevie Wonder, even as the devil in my ear kept whispering "portobello." But now that I know they exist, I'm ready to pass Chris' challenge along to the greater Nashville area: Who's going to take their job and shove it so I can get a wood-fired rosemary chicken/Brussels sprout special with roasted garlic and pepper flakes? (I'll settle for pepperoni, by the way. I'm easy.)
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I'm a great candidate, aren't I?
I don't want to know what kind of person would eat Shmoo meat.
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Who *wouldn't* eat Shmoo meat?
"Shmoos are delicious to eat, and are eager to be eaten. If a human looks at one hungrily, it will happily immolate itself, either by jumping into a frying pan, after which they taste like chicken, or into a broiling pan, after which they taste like steak. When roasted they taste like pork, and when baked they taste like catfish. (Raw, they taste like oysters on the half-shell.)"
But Shmoo loves you! See: http://www.timewarptoys.com/shmoo.jpg
Shmoo is not for you to abuse. Do not take advantage of Shmoo.
Thinking that we might want to improve the quality of stationary pizza in this town before we take it on the road.
Stand by for news folks... Bella Napoli, a new pizzeria coming to Edgehill Village will be serving up authentic Napoli style pizza. This method calls for only the freshest ingredients, imported from Naples and a true wood fired oven, yes, wood fired. This proven method for baking the best makes it the only way. You'll watch your pizza prepared fresh, baked with wood heat, in a beautiful setting that mimics Italian pizzerias.
The brain child behind Nashville's first Napoli style pizza is Valentino's Executive Chef Paolo Tramontano, a native of Naples. He brings his life long love of his city's globally known and widely loved pizza to Nashville through the opening of Bella Napoli Pizzeria, a new pizza concept being launched by Valentino's.
Additional news that makes this almost too much to take, look for a wood fired mobile Napoli style pizza oven moving through the streets of Nashville soon. If you'd like to learn more about this method of making the worlds best pizza, stand by for news. There's much more to follow.
