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The brick oven is solidly European. Once we move away from arid places: Middle East, Southwestern U.S., Saharan Africa, the high altitude, ovens that are built to bake in are most often made of bricks, not as the commonly the clay/mud of arid places..
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France |
The brick oven is solidly European. Once we move away from arid places: Middle East, Southwestern U.S., Saharan Africa, the high altitude, ovens that are built to bake in are most often made of bricks, not as the commonly the clay/mud of arid places..
The wetter, colder climates of Europe needed the permanence of brick and in most cases, the ovens were sheltered by roofs rather than masonry/stucco domes.
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Italy |
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France |
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St. John USVI |
Europeans brought their brick oven techniques to places they colonized.
North American ovens of the early colonial era and since were made of brick.
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