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09/04/2004 Archived Entry: "Slice"
Reading Slice (on my blogroll) makes me jealous. Look at the kinds of pizza one can find in the New York/Jersey area. My greatest food love is pizza. Not the cardboard you order on the phone and which arrives at your door in twenty minutes or its free. Real hand-crafted artisan pizza. Pizza Palace was my Gainesville love until it closed a few years back. The Ricotta Lambada. Oh man. That was the inspiration for my own ricotta cheese pizza (which I haven’t made in quite some time...hmmm…gives me an idea…)And Everybody's Pizza in Atlanta is great. But in Detroit? Nothing. There isn't any pizza. There are a few places which claim to make pizza, but none meet the challenge. I've crossed the border a few times to enjoy some of Windsor's pizzas. Most are decent. But when I read the reviews at Slice, I feel depressed. I've been content to make my own since '96 or so. A kitchen oven, though, never reaches the right temperature. I steam the oven, make all kinds of bases (I am the only one I know who makes a pizza sauce/base in the mortar and pestle), etc. Most come out good. But none can approach the pizzas of wood burning ovens that populate fine pizzerias. If the Detroit Message Board folks see this post, maybe they'll jump on me like they did to Shaviro. But let's face it guys, our city lacks good pizza. We've got other bases covered nicely: Arab food, sushi, Thai, a couple decent breweries, Indian...but no pizza.
Replies: 3 comments
Fair enough. It's the only pizza[-like food] I've had in Motown. My brother and I pig down a seafood pie from Papalis every time I'm in town. But I think it's in decline, given to rocketing prices and the worn specialty of becoming a city-wide chain.
Posted by D @ 09/05/2004 09:04 AM EST
I said "pizza"!
:)
Posted by j @ 09/04/2004 01:13 PM EST
Tried Pizza Papalis?
Posted by D @ 09/04/2004 01:08 PM EST