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A photo of an Earth and Stone Wood Fired Pizza from a May 2013 AL.com/Huntsville Times dining review. (Matt Wake | mwake@al.com)

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Tina Ford still doesn't know which of their customers nominated Earth and Stone Wood Fired Pizza for Mobile-Cuisine.com's 2014 Pizza Food Truck Of The Year Contest.

"But I thank them," says Ford, who co-owns Earth and Stone, an Albertville based venture that's become a mainstay of the Huntsville food truck scene, with friend Stan Stinson.

As of early afternoon Monday, Earth and Stone was leading the 15-entry Pizza Food Truck Of The Year poll field with 556 votes, 27 percent of total votes. Oklahamoa City's Saucee Sicilian was in second place with 380 votes. Other finalists in the Mobile-Cuisine.com poll include Cincinnati's Catch a Fire Pizza; Chicago's Chicago Pizza Boss; new York's Eddie's Pizza; Austin, Texas' Viva 313 Pizza; and Washington's DC Slices.

Mobile-Cuisine.com is a Chicago-based blog founded in 2010.

Ford, a former marketer, and Stinson, whose background is in operations with a regional electronics company, both now 50, opened Earth and Stone in May 2013, debuting at Greene Street Market. Ford says following an early, favorable AL.com dining review, which lauded Earth and Stone's "original topping combinations and standout crust," business has "just been crazy busy ever since and Huntsville's really embraced us and made us part of their dining experience almost every day of the week."

The Mobile-Cuisine.com Pizza 2014 Food Truck Of The Year Contest began with a reader generated submissions phase, which closed noon Aug. 29. Initially these submissions were to be narrowed down to a top 10, but as a message on the blog states, "Many of the trucks were too close to eliminate some, so instead of a top 10, we have a top 15."

The online poll, which can be found at http://mobile-cuisine.com/contest/vote-now-2014-pizza-food-truck-year/, closes midnight Sept. 12.

If Earth and Stone ends up winning, Ford says, "For us it would validate what we think about our pizza and there's nothing like cooking pizza in a wood-fired oven. If you work really hard, take pride in what you do and use local ingredients then you can create a product that people will follow. We have people that follow us from event to event. It just humbles us and blows our mind.

"I think it also validates Huntsville that the food trucks are going to be huge (here), possibly on the level with Atlanta, Nashville and Austin. I think there's a lot of creative trucks here, the bacon truck (I Love Bacon) and the lobster truck (Rollin Lobstah). There's just no limit to what we can do with it."

Earth and Stone's best selling pizza is The Favorite, which has ingredients including Alfredo sauce, garlic and ricotta cheese, Italian sausage and thin sliced red onion. The Porkalicious (pepperoni, sausage and bacon) is another flagship pie. Earth and Stone's 10-inch pizza range in price from about $9 - $13.

This week, Earth and Stone will be parked at location including Redstone Arsenal (corner of Rideout and Martin roads, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Wednesday - Friday); Blue Pants Brewery (500 Lanier Rd, Madison, 5 p.m. – 8 p.m. Friday) and Yellowhammer Brewing (2406 Clinton Ave. W., 5 p.m. 8 or 9 p.m. Saturday).

[Correction: the poll closes at midnight Sept. 12 not 12 p.m. Sept. 12.]