Big Sur

[lsanderson]

The Way We Eat
Wood-Fired
By CHRISTINE MUHLKE
Published: August 8, 2008

When I visited Big Sur Bakery in March, I had no idea it would be so much in the news by July. I’d heard about the bakery and restaurant through my friend Liz, who had returned from a month in the coastal California hamlet and e-mailed me about their chocolate-chip cookies in capital letters. The visit confirmed that the cookies were uppercase material, with multiple exclamation points for the breakfast pizza, a life-changing pie of bacon, eggs and cheese that will make scallion skeptics rethink that ’70s garnish. Then last month, when I wrote the co-owner and pastry chef Michelle Rizzolo for recipes, she said she’d do what she could before they had to evacuate. The restaurant’s pizza oven wasn’t the only thing burning in Big Sur. More