The New York Times recaps the saga of how pizzaiolo Jon Darsky’s plan to save some money by starting a mobile pizza business instead of opening a restaurant resulted in his $180,000 custom-built wood-fired pizza truck, Del Popolo. It’s an interesting read because it takes you through the steps of figuring out who could build this thing — Darsky landed on McLellan Equipment, a company in Hanford, California which has also built antenna trucks for a Saudi prince — and then getting his fragile yet 5,000-pound pizza oven from Naples, across the ocean, and ultimately on board his souped-up shipping container on wheels. And no, nobody’s ever built a truck quite like this one before. [NYT, Earlier]
