By Pete Wells

David Sclarow built his first wood-burning pizza oven so he could feed guests at the wedding of two cheesemakers. They were getting married some distance from Brooklyn, where he lived, so he layered the bricks and concrete on top of a flatbed trailer that he could hitch to the back of his Volkswagen Doka.

The next time he took his mobile pizza oven for a spin, it collapsed, but by that point, he liked it so much that he rebuilt it. It was the second oven in which he started baking small, irregular, alluringly blistered margheritas at the Brooklyn Flea in 2008. It caved in, too.

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