There is a new covert pizza operation in Duluth.  This loose, hip, utopian, organization is based among some of the more dangerous areas of lower Goat Hill. It produces pizza only on Fridays (and sometimes Thursdays) from a recently, hand constructed, outdoor oven - overlooking Lake Superior.

Lit in the afternoon, the furnace is fired with peace, love, harmony and locally sourced cedar wood chips.  Dough rises, the sun sets, and the kiln ascends 700 degrees.  

The pizza is delivered by means of a furtive motorbike. It appears to have been secured from Palestinians who had used it to run contraband around the Gaza strip.

Now it is put into service promoting freedom and community within a shifting radius, around Goat and Observation Hill. The cycle will transport two pizza soldiers and four pizzas, all at the same time. However, the chariot does need to be pushed down a steep hill to get it started.

The operators are little bohemian regarding how they run their fledgling foray into commerce.
(For example, they don't really have a set price for the pizza.)

Yeah, that's hot!

Contrabbando Pizza Celebrazione - Thursday August 15, 2013.

19 great guests, 16 Pizzas, 17 Bottles of Wine.*

Kari Said, "Even my lavender, purple, paisley underwear matches the pizza".

Posers

Are you a plumber? Do these look like nice pipes to you?

Desert! 
(chocolate sorbet by Amanda)
kid photos by Rob

Alluring Laura craves a caption for that upper right image... please, someone?

"Sweet and hot with nothing in the middle to mess things up."  

(Dan talking about the Plum Habenero, a crowd favorite.)

kafayı yemek (Turkish)
Turkish "kafa" (head) + "-yı" (accusative suffix) + "yemek" (to eat). It literally means "to eat the head". Verb kafayı yemek: To become insane kafayı mı yedin? - did you eat the head (become insane)? Answer: Yes!

Ingredients are locally sourced whenever possible, such as goat cheese from Goat Hill, meat from the Smokehouse and the wine from Italy.

To see where the wine came from, click here.

Parking was premium.

Good Night!

Someone forgot their sunglasses.

The chipmunks were the happiest I have ever seen them.

*Please note the incredible restraint, at this point, that was used to not complete an equation with cliche binary operator symbols for addition. As well as not including the variable of "1 perfect day", nor that mathematical symbol that is used to indicate equality (invented in 1557 by Robert Recorde.) And, finally, that there is not a sum at that end of all of this indicating the evening had a value beyond all price, that is was precious and of inestimable worth. Though all true, thank you so much for helping make it so. (Puzzler: If you know the cliche to which I refer, please send me an email.)

This photo of the hostess looks like a selfie... it is actually from the hand of Dan Stocke, a master of the perfect perspective photo.