idlewild pizza – Orangette https://orangette.net Wed, 16 Dec 2015 07:36:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 May 22 https://orangette.net/2015/05/may-22/ https://orangette.net/2015/05/may-22/#comments Fri, 22 May 2015 22:55:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2015/05/22/may-22 About eight months after we opened Delancey, a customer named Eric Peterson sent an e-mail to Brandon, and the subject line read, I want to make pizza at Delancey! Eric was working at a local pizza place, but he wanted to learn another approach – to learn the chemistry behind good dough, how to make sauce from scratch, how to manage a wood-burning oven. His five-year plan was to open a small wood-fired pizza restaurant in Leavenworth, a mountain town roughly two hours east of Seattle, and he was ready to put in the time to learn what he needed to know. I called his references and wound up talking to an older guy with whom Eric had once worked…

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