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Earth and Stone Wood Fired Pizza. (Courtesy photo)

They beat-out competitors from pizza Meccas such as New York and Chicago and a dozen other hopefuls. Now, Albertville's Earth and Stone Wood Fired Pizza has been crowned 2014 Pizza Food Truck Of The Year, via a Mobile-Cuisine.com poll.

Other top finishers include Oklahoma City's Saucee Sicilian in second place, El Paso's Little Luna Pizza third; Chicago's Chicago Pizza Boss fourth and Houston's Pi Pizza in fifth.

Mobile-Cuisine, based in Chicago and founded in 2010, announced the results of the poll earlier today.

Earth and Stone is owned and operated by Tina Ford, a former marketer, and Stinson, whose background is in electronics operations, both age 50. Since debuting at Greene Street Market in May 2013, the venture has become a fixture of the growing Huntsville food truck scene.

Earth and Stone cooks their pizzas in a wood-fired brick oven using mostly white-oak, which "burns very clean and hot" Ford says, to goose temperatures up to around 900 degrees. Before launching their food truck, Ford and Stinson traveled to various cities, including New Orleans, to sample and benchmark pies before settling on a crust recipe using Italian Caputo flour. "It's so unique and tasty and allows us to cook a higher temperature," Ford says. "Everyone loves the crust. It's been a good thing."

Earth and Stone sells mostly 10-inch pizzas ranging in price from about $9 - $13. The top selling pie is called The Favorite, with ingredients including Alfredo sauce, garlic and ricotta cheese, Italian sausage and thin sliced red onion.

Other trucks in the Mobile-Cuisine.com poll included: New York's Eddie's Pizza; San Francisco's Del Popolo; Boston's Stoked Wood Pizza; Austin, Texas' Via 313 Pizza; Milwaukee's Streetza Pizza; San Diego's Red Oven Pizza; Gainesville, Fla.'s Ameraucana Wood Fired Pizza; Jordan, Ontario's AVellas Wood Fired Oven; Cincinnati's Catch A Fire Pizza; and Washington's DC Slices.

Earth and Stone Wood Fired Pizza co-owner Tina Ford. (Courtesy photo)

The Mobile-Cuisine.com 2014 Pizza Food Truck Of The Year poll closed midnight Sept. 12. The poll began with a reader generated submissions phase, which closed noon Aug. 29.

Ford still doesn't know which of their customers nominated Earth and Stone Wood Fired Pizza. "If Mobile Cuisine will tell us who nominated us we'd like to thank them," she says. "All our customers have just really rallied behind us and sent us messages and retweeted and put it on their Facebooks and voted and got all their family to vote. It's just unreal. We knew we had a good following but until this came about we just didn't recognize how much everyone loves our pizza."

Ford discovered Earth and Stone had won the Mobile-Cuisine.com poll Monday when she used her smartphone to check the blog. She said since voting began, Earth and Stone has seen an uptick in catering bookings and the venture's number of Twitter followers has increased by about 200 to near 600. To celebrate being voted 2014 Pizza Food Truck Of The Year, Earth and Stone will be testing out an as-yet-unnamed pie featuring habanero-red onion jam, "that has a little bit of kick to it and it's a little bit sweet," Ford says, and some pita dishes made from their pizza crust.

This week, Earth and Stone will be parked at locations including Redstone Arsenal (corner of Rideout and Martin roads, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday); U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (4820 University Square, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Friday); Blue Pants Brewery (500 Lanier Road, Madison, 5 - 9 p.m. Wednesday); Downtown Huntsville Inc.'s September Street Food Gathering (Church Street, 6 - 9 p.m. Friday) and Monte Sano Art Festival (Monte Sano State Park, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Saturday).

Read an AL.com dining review of Earth and Stone Wood Fired Pizza here.