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Have Pizza, Will Travel: The Big Green Pizza Truck

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The Big Green Pizza Truck Imagine not having to go out for pizza. I don't mean just having pizza delivered, I mean having entire pizzeria come to your door. I kept hearing stories, about the big green pizza truck, a mobile pizzeria, with a full on, wood fired pizza oven, in the back. I knew I had to track down the truck. I finally found Douglas Coffin , the owner and operator. He not only agreed to do the interview but he was very forthcoming about the Pizza Business and his pizza truck. The interview follows: Albert : Hi Douglas. How did you get started with the pizza truck: What came first the pizza or the truck? What is your pizza background and how did you get interested in pizza? Because I feel, to make you pizza, you need to have a passion for it. Douglas : I am sorry to disappoint the pizza fanatics - I am not a pizza nut. I am a caterer and the truck grew out of my catering background, not a passion for pizza. For many years I have felt that the best food is that which is ...

2007: A Strange Year for Pizza News

Its been a strange year filled with Pizza News and Weird Pizza Mis-Adventures. The year started with a phone call from Chris Bianco, of Pizzeria Bianco , who had just been featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show. It seems like I kept having more unusual pizza adventures, in 2007. I was contacted by Jimmy Kimmel's staff and for about 5 minutes, I thought I was on my way to Hollywood to make pizza. No kidding! I took Nine Time World Pizza Champ, Tony Gemignani to lunch in Honolulu ... Legends of Pizza Volume 1 and 2 was released as an e-book. That was good news. The Big Green Pizza Truck shared a Recipe for Pizza and other pizza secrets. More good news. I had a very revealing Interview with Jay Vogler from Pizza on Earth in Vermont... I reviewed Rachael Ray's pizza smackdown as she took on the pizza fanatics of Chicago and New York . I got into this incredible controversy about Vino's vs. Gino's in Little Rock, Arkansas. I announced how Nine time World Pizza Champi...

The Big Green Pizza Truck Rides Again...

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I got an email from my friend Franco, telling me there was a new pizza video on msn.com . "Watch it", he said. The video was an episode of : "A Big Life" with Sissy Biggers . In the episode Sissy learns to make pizza for the first time from scratch. I saw the finished pizza and it looked pretty good. Imagine my pleasant surprise when in the opening moments of the episode, up drives The Big Green Pizza Truck. "It's a small world after all..." I thought! The pizzaiolo of The Truck were going to teach Sissy how to make pizza. Owners Douglas Coffin and Kevin Spooner , gave Sissy some pizza making lessons as well as truck driving lessons... Watch the video right here>>> "Sissy Makes Pizza." Last year I had heard a number stories, about the The B ig Green Pizza Truck , a mobile pizzeria, with a full on, wood fired pizza oven, in the back. I knew I had to track down the truck and owner . I was finally able to track down Douglas a...