Marisol Doyle
- Pizzaiola
- Owner
About
Born and raised in Mexico, Marisol Doyle gained a love for fresh food at a young age at family fiestas and by watching her mom cook home meals. Having worked in restaurants for nearly two decades, she opened Leña Pizza + Bagels in April 2023, located in Cleveland, Mississippi.
Leña is her first brick and mortar. Doyle first started working with dough in 2016 when she co-founded a small bagel company. Wanting to learn an entirely different dough chemistry, she studied at the prestigious Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana in Napoli, Italy in 2022. At AVPN, she learned the deep traditions of wood-fired, brick oven Neapolitan pizza-making. Doyle also completed a stage at Scuola di Pizzaiolo outside Napoli.
"At Leña, we follow many of the strict methods taught at Associazione Pizza Napoletana. We use house-made dough with house-made sauce
and cook by firewood in our Italian-imported brick oven. Our bagels are also blistered by the oven just before we serve them to customers. We believe the ancient method of cooking by fire brings out the
deepest flavors. I'm very proud of my Mexican heritage, and I like to incorporate traditional Mexican ingredients into different menu items
at Leña. As far as we can tell, our oven is the first of its kind in our rural Mississippi Delta town. We hope our wood-fired pizza and bagels are a unique culinary option that will keep customers coming
back. We're incredibly grateful for all the community support we've already received."
Leña is her first brick and mortar. Doyle first started working with dough in 2016 when she co-founded a small bagel company. Wanting to learn an entirely different dough chemistry, she studied at the prestigious Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana in Napoli, Italy in 2022. At AVPN, she learned the deep traditions of wood-fired, brick oven Neapolitan pizza-making. Doyle also completed a stage at Scuola di Pizzaiolo outside Napoli.
"At Leña, we follow many of the strict methods taught at Associazione Pizza Napoletana. We use house-made dough with house-made sauce
and cook by firewood in our Italian-imported brick oven. Our bagels are also blistered by the oven just before we serve them to customers. We believe the ancient method of cooking by fire brings out the
deepest flavors. I'm very proud of my Mexican heritage, and I like to incorporate traditional Mexican ingredients into different menu items
at Leña. As far as we can tell, our oven is the first of its kind in our rural Mississippi Delta town. We hope our wood-fired pizza and bagels are a unique culinary option that will keep customers coming
back. We're incredibly grateful for all the community support we've already received."
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