In the summer of 2007 I went in Carrapateira in Portugal by the Amado beach for holiday. I staid in a surf camp hidden in the hills. The camp it’s own by two brothers, João and André, they are in the winter fisherman and in summer surf teachers. In the camp there’s a very familiar atmosphere, Andrè and João have theirs house there too and in the common kitchen often the people stuck together around food. There’s a big grill and a wooden oven too.
When I saw the oven my mind immediately figured out what was possible to do with it and the possibilities to arrange some sort of pizzeria where there wasn’t one yet. So the plan I had in my pocket for years saw in that wooden oven the possibility to be finally realized.
I had not doubt that João and André after trying my pizza would love it, so I took them from the trout, as we say in Italy. I arranged a piece of metal and built a pala and one day I did pizza for everybody in the camp. After that they asked me to make it again, and again and than they asked me to come here and work for the wall season as a sheaf in the camp.
It’s like this that now I’m here in Carrapateira cooking and surfing.

Tags: surf.