Fire

This post is way overdue, as we first featured pictures of the “Pizza Truck” in one of our first few albums, but it still deserves to be highlighted and we just went the other day so it got me thinking about it. The Pizza Charly is a wonderful, wonderful thing!!!! We are in such a rural area of southern France there is not a pizza place across the street from our house like in there is in Davis Square. The “Pizza Truck,” however, is a fully equipped (although questionably safe) mobile pizza-creating truck, fully stocked with fun French pizza ingredients, that sets up in three different villages throughout the week. The kicker is, IT HAS A FULL WOOD-FIRED OVEN INSIDE! The truck is open five days throughout the week and people drive to get their pizza, wherever it is scheduled to be that particular night. The pizza is a thin crust, wood fire pizza that is to die for. Highlight pizza choices of ours are the:

1. Cevenole (jambon, lardons, champignons & fromage - ham, bacon, mushrooms & cheese).

2. L'Armenienne (vinde hachée & oignon - chopped steak and onion).

3. La Fromagere (roquefort, pélardon, camembert, mozzarella & gruyère - a white pizza with some really good smelly cheese).

4. La Persillade (lardons, ail & persil - bacon, oil and parsley - also a white pizza ).

It was very difficult to only name 4 - we love them all (except I am not a huge fan of the ones with brandade (a salt cod type spread) and anchois (anchovies). Apparently, we are the talk of “The Truck” as our friends who are also regular customers said that the owners told them about the crazy “American Paparazzi” who order two pies every time and take pictures of the truck while waiting for them to be ready!