dinner tonight

I recently received a late birthday present from my dear sister Janna. She gave me a terra cotta pizza stone, made from red clay from Alfred, New York (my hometown). When I was a kid I thought terra cotta was invented in Alfred, but since I've grown up I've learned that the ancient Greeks invented it. Alfred at one point had a fairly large and well-known terra cotta factory, though. All of that aside, we used our new pizza stone tonight! My husband, being part Italian, insists on perfect pizza, so he was the chef. This was our first real try, and we realized achieving pizza perfection will be a life-long quest. Being the first time around, it wasn't bad, though the crust was almost cracker-like, dry and chewy. For my husband, though, that is much better than having an overly soft, doughy crust.