Man Keeps Pizza Oven Fired Up 24/7, 'Just In Case Friends Stop In'

By day, Julian Abramson is a chili pepper farmer about an hour north of Cape Town, South Africa. But whenever he wants, he can also be a pizza oven master since his backyard wooden oven—using wood from a non-native Australian tree—is heated 24/7. As a farmer, Abramson naturally has pots filled with herbs, tomatoes, and peppers for his pizza's homemade sauces and toppings. His favorite combo: bananas, green chili, and garlic. He makes the thin-crust pies "spontaneously all day whenever he, his family, or random neighbors are hungry." GoodEater.org contributor Joshua Levin visited Abramson in Tierfontein, South Africa. Levin...

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16 Comments | Posted by Erin Zimmer, November 12, 2008 at 1:44 PM
Tagged: Africa, Cape Town, pizza ovens, South Africa

Dear Slice: Here's Where to Get Pizza in Zambia

Clicking in to the Slice inbox today, we've got this awesome email from Justin C. in Zambia.... I'm a federal civil servant currently on a four-month detail to Lusaka, Zambia, and until recently I had accepted that I'd be without good pizza during that time. Lusaka is the capital of a very undeveloped country, and the options are very limited even in the city. There are a couple fast-food pizza joints here (South African chain Debonairs and Pizza Inn), but they're terrible. A couple colleagues recommended I go to Black Knight, a local bakery/coffee shop chain that makes pizza. The...

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2 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, September 22, 2008 at 10:00 AM
Tagged: Africa, Dear Slice, Foreign Pizza, Lusaka, reviews, Slice reviews, Zambia