Why I Stopped Baking My Pizzas In Wood-Burning Ovens | Pizza Oven Dome

Park City Live Presents Kaskade at Snowfest427 Main St. Each night, chart-topping artists will take the stage for intimate performances. EDM pioneer Kaskade kicks off the festival. 

Rarely, if ever before, has an airline nodded to the fact that human beings are getting bigger, rather than smaller.

Horizon AwardThe Spur, 352 Main St., 7-9 p.m. Cassian Elwest, Lynette Howell Taylor and Christine Vachon in association with Endeavor Content are hosting the 4th annual Horizon Award featuring special guest presenters and the Adrienne Shelly Foundation Grant, per the invite. 

Meanwhile, CNN’s final generic ballot poll shows Democrats winning voters over 65 by a whopping 14-point margin. Now, the sample sizes for demographic groups in opinion polls are tiny, and thus, the margin of error is enormous. But CNN’s survey isn’t the first to find America’s elderly (and most reliable) voters turning left in droves:

Power Women’s CocktailAutograph Collection’s Hotel Park City, 2001 Park Ave, 4-6 p.m. Aisha Tyler and 20th Century Fox’s Moira Griffin to co-host the 2nd annual “Power Women’s Cocktail” put on by Autograph Collection Hotels, the Black List and Sundance Institute & Diversity Initiative, at The Retreat inside Hotel Park City. The event celebrates the female voices in independent film, from screenwriters and actors to directors and producers. Invite-only.

But this was the most different Christmas dinner I’ve ever had, and I have to say the most relaxed, stress-free and joyful one ever.

I caught La Morra on a good night, which is something they joke about repeatedly over my three hours standing next to the oven. There is a certain freedom in operating as a pop-up, but it comes with a great deal of uncertainty. La Morra is often beholden to the whims of the bar patrons at Tabula Rasa, and to the hype surrounding the pizzeria at any given moment, whether it comes from an outside outlet or what they drum up themselves via Instagram. The couple have plans to open a storefront somewhere on the Eastside. Should things go well, Swemle hopes to run a side business building pizza ovens.

BurdenGrey Goose Blue Door, 449 Main St., 9 p.m. The Grey Goose-sponsored venue hosts an afterparty for the film’s stars and guests. Expected to attend are Garrett Hedlund, Forest Whitaker, Austin Hebert and Usher.

Customers at Smokin’ Oak Wood-Fired Pizza are privy to all the wood-burning action, thanks to the pizzeria’s open kitchen.

The prevailing myth about Los Angeles pizza is that there is nothing prevalent about it. In New York, a good pizzeria can serve as a neighborhood welcome sign; in L.A., that mantle is more likely to be carried by a taco truck (or five). For decades, the city’s pizza culture was tied to the unrepentant iconoclasm of California Pizza Kitchen’s barbecue chicken pizza and Wolfgang Puck’s smoked salmon pizza at Spago. Even the city’s most iconic modern pizza, from baking master Nancy Silverton’s 12-year-old Pizzeria Mozza, was more or less a happy accident. Mozza, with an original style that took inspiration from both Naples and Rome but more from Nancy’s creative energy, blazed a trail of national respectability for L.A. pizza. In 2011, Steve Samson’s Sotto and Bez Compani’s Mother Dough (which closed in 2015) would carry the torch, serving some of the best Neapolitan-style pizzas in the city, but it would take a decade for the Silverton trail to become its own interstate highway.

By establishing proper procedures, employees can be quickly trained to operate a wood-fired oven. Photo courtesy Smokin’ Oak Wood-Fired Pizza.

This restaurant at 6670 S. Lewis Ave. was known for its high-end Middle Eastern fare. Fans are still stalking the Facebook page for any news of a new location.