tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-367501077616987971.post2312411634879171839..comments2024-02-09T11:45:36.884-05:00Comments on Slice Harvester: Cafe Viva Natural Pizza: "I am full of so much righteous anger writing this right now!"Slice Harvesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18379817550845956364noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-367501077616987971.post-64915366663762771202012-01-03T15:45:29.052-05:002012-01-03T15:45:29.052-05:00The other thing I would say about this place - thi...The other thing I would say about this place - this is not a place for good old plain New York pizza.<br /><br />But if you're a vegan (or even not) and want the most delicious explosion of ten million tastes in your mouth, get Cafe Viva's Zen pizza. It's amazing. Not because it's pizza, but because of the other stuff it has going on. So I wouldn't write this place off entirely, but I would write it off if all you want is good old NY pizza.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-367501077616987971.post-44462538823836774212009-10-28T18:33:12.641-04:002009-10-28T18:33:12.641-04:00Although many health food or organic places may no...Although many health food or organic places may not do a particularly good job of properly making unhealthy food, I still think I'm going to have to disagree with you on the pizza/organic shouldn't be mixed argument. I think many foods are both healthier and taste better in their organic form, but this is more true for some than for others. Organic dairy tastes way better than the other kind, mostly because cow udders frequently get infected when milked using conventional farming methods. Dairy products (such as pizza cheese) can potentially and generally do taste significantly better when not being made from the milk of sick infected cows. Organic tomatoes also vary greatly from conventionally farmed tomatoes in a number of ways. First, there is way more variety, thousands of different types of tomatoes actually - some you may like, some you may not, but you can definitely find organic tomatoes that blow away the generic red tomatoes you see in grocery stores. Secondly, organic tomatoes generally aren't refrigerated before you buy them - much of the flavor and many of the important health properties of tomatoes are lost if they're allowed to get below 55 degrees fahrenheit. Third, organic tomatoes are actually ripe, whereas conventionally farmed tomatoes are picked green and then put through an artificial ripening process which changes their color but has a negligible effect on flavor. <br /><br />All that said, in the whole wide world of food, there are 2 food products in particular that I would always try to buy organic, and they are tomatoes and dairy. And these two things contribute quite a bit to a slice of pizza. So, a pizza made correctly but using all organic ingredients can potentially be completely amazing. As long as they don't try to dump a bunch of wheat grass and grapeseed extract and echinacea on top.Jordannoreply@blogger.com