Friday night is Pizza Night at the Round House Cafe, a kind of unofficial community center for many people in our small town. Scott and Dominick come in early in the afternoon to fire up their new wood-fired stove, Scott and Dominick have been friends a long time, Scott is a mentor in our community.

He and Dominick work seamless to take orders, swirl the dough, apply the fresh vegetables and meats and maintain a steady flow of orders into the wood-fired oven. In early summer, when pizza night began, Scott and Dominick were nearly overwhelmed with orders.

But now, with two new modern wood-fired ovens, they are a ballet, a well-oiled machine, they work almost wordlessly and in complete harmony to keep up with the orders, and even stay ahead of them. Some nights, Scott and Dominick will make 50 or 60 pizzas, almost all with fresh vegetables from the Round House gardens at Pompanuck Farm.

Oddly enough, there is great emotion in this work, I think it reflects Scott’s obsessive determination to make the cafe a special place, and his relationship with Dominick, the two respect one another as well as their pizzas. I love that the camera caught the flour coming off of the dough, which Scott was twirling.