Ciril hitz biography of william

Award-winning pastry chef Ciril Hitz, a department chairman and instructor at Johnson and Wales University, always carried with him a fond recollection of the aroma of fresh bread baking to perfection in the wood-fired ovens so common in his native Switzerland.

PROJECT

Wood-Fired Oven

Today, he and his wife, Kylee, live in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, in a 1786 Cape surrounded by fields of hay and wildflowers — but in 2006, with the help of the Maine Wood Heat Company, he found a way to rekindle one small part of his childhood.

Now on baking days, the couple’s two children compete with chickens, dogs, cats, and an assortment of baby pheasants for the delectable crumbs that fall fresh from Ciril’s outdoor oven.

PROCESS

The oven came as a kit produced by Le Panyol, France’s oldest operating manufacturer of wood-fired ovens.

After checking town building and fire codes, Ciril decided to situate his oven on a level piece of ground next to an outbuildi