As you may already know, it seems that the more-than-100-year-old building that housed All Fired Up Tavern in Barre was a total loss, and has been torn down.

As far as I’ve seen, the best guess as to the cause of the fire is that it started in or around one of the wood-fired pizza ovens, but that hasn’t yet been confirmed by the fire department.

I’ll let you know if I learn more.

Here’s a Times Argus article with lots of details about the process of fighting the fire.

This article appears in Oct 15-21, 2008.

Former contributor Suzanne Podhaizer is an award-winning food writer (and the first Seven Days food editor) as well as a chef, farmer, and food-systems consultant. She has given talks at the Stone Barns Center for Agriculture's "Poultry School" and its...