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...rather biased, and I feel that the other side of the pizza must be presented. It is well-known that there are two schools of thought regarding pizza: the thick-crusters vs. the thin-crusters. Those of us who prefer eating pizza to eating bread with a little tomato sauce generally prefer a thin base of dough. Preparing such a pizza required consummate culinary skill; slightly undercooked pizza retains that grainy powder underneath and overcooked pizza has what I understand are called "burnt" areas. The chefs at Joe's (now on Linden street) walk this perilous tightrope and seldom fall...
...didn't go back to Joe's until two weeks ago when I decided to sample the pizza in the Square, but it is still as bad as ever. The cheese is remarkably bland, the tomato sauce is no better, and the dough is much too thin...
...pizza at the end of Plympton St. is a little better than the variety Joe serves up, but it smacks of his influence. Like Joe's the dough is too thin and the tomato sauce uninteresting, but the cheese here has a much more spicy taste. The prices here are the same...
PINNOCHIO'S ALSO serves a passable pizza, but his pie does not have the flavor that the one at the 24 Restaurant does. The cheese here is also very good and again my complaint is that not enough tomato sauce and cheese are used in making...
...benefit auction in Los Angeles for the "Neighbors of Watts," Norton Simon, the millionaire art collector and philanthropist, plunked down a cool $23,000 for Ripening, a drybrush watercolor of two tomatoes on a weatherworn windowsill. "Fantastic," glowed the artist, Actor Henry Fonda, who had donated the watercolor to the auction. "Norton and Jennifer [Norton's wife, Actress Jennifer Jones] phoned my wife Shirlee the day after the auction to say how pleased they are with the painting. Norton said: Tell Henry that's not the way to ripen tomatoes-on a windowsill...