Article: Pizza oven has genuine Italian flavor ; New restaurant installs import

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The city's latest culinary star, a native of Genoa, Italy, started cooking pizzas for customers last week at Oregano Pizzeria & Ristorante at 16 Pleasant St. The restaurant's owner hopes this newcomer will give the restaurant a fast start in the crowded local dining field.

Oh, and the new guy? Weighs 5,400 pounds and has a heart of stone.

Not so much "he" as "it," actually, a gas-fired pizza oven - with a single slab of stone for a floor and a concrete dome - that really did come over on the boat from Italy. The last 30 feet of the journey was the hard part, requiring removal of the storefront window and structural improvements to the building.

"I moved to Newburyport two years ...

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