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"cauliflower and ketchup pasta" - that distracted me from the rest of the post, unfortunately. ew, ketchup rather than tomato sauce? ketchup as a sauce? that's just blasphemous.

Gourmet.com received written approval from CB to run this piece? I DOUBT IT. I know Chris personally & I feel this is mildly funny but it's not Chris Bianco... some of this slander may have been him in a rushed moment, baring witness to men with a ruler measuring a few of the hundreds of pizzas he makes himself each night. When you read other articles featuring Chris for the chef he truly is, you find his wisdom has nothing to do with an F-bomb. Out of respect for Chris Bianco, I say remove this F-bomb piece unless he wants it posted...

I hate to beat this topic to death, but is anyone aware of a truly nitrate/nitrite free hot dog?

@Stacey: lots of things are worth waiting that long. Whenever I go to Pizzeria Bianco, my whole day is really just waiting to eat pizza, whether or not I've gotten to the pizzeria yet. One of these days I'll time it so I can catch a Diamondbacks or spring training game while I wait.

I think the article gives the impression that Chris swears more than he does. He seems pretty amped up in those conversations, though, so maybe that's why.

Paulie,
We were at Bianco's last spring in Phoenix, not knowing about the wait......4 hours.
I love pizza and I f....ng love Chris', but nothing is worth waiting that long......except maybe pizza from an outdoor pizza oven in Warren, NJ!!!

Stacey Snacks
http://staceysnacksonline.com

@Paulie Gee, are you going to be in Phoenix during Memorial Dax?

Is it still a 2 hour wait? What time should one get there on a Saturday to ensure eating?

One of the greatest moments in my pizza tours was meeting Chris Bianco and eating his pizza. His crust is almost an El Bulli magic trick, it dissolves upon eating. The closest to this crust was at Andiamo in LA but so different as not to compare. When I approached Chris at his stove we had a three minute pizza conversation that was the best in my life. He knew ever pizza joint in New York and smiled at the recall of each one he liked. I ran into him the next day at Pane Bianco and he seemed like an old friend. Oh, and his pizza may be the best in the US.

mamster, Outstanding interview and my compliments to you for an excellent job.

I may have to disagree with you on the part about it not being a remotely unusual interview. I have followed Chris Biancos career for years. I even belong to a Pizzeria Bianco Face Book fan group and have added most of the content to it.
And never have I read one article as similar or remotely revealing. Truly unique and different then others I thought. In a good way!

All commercial hot dogs contain derivatives of Vitamin C, Ascorbic acid, sodium citrate, Sodium Erythorbate or Sodium Ascorbate, these are added to reduce the nitrites added in the hot dog to effectively cure the meat and reduce any residual Nitrites to minimum levels. Celery Juice requires a fermentation process to convert the nitrtrates to nitrite, something that may not be completely done.
Never grill a natural hot dog, the residual nitrates can combine with the polycyclic hydrocarbons generated in the grilling process causing Nitrosamines, a known carcinogen. THis is why nitrates were banned from sausage and Bacon in all USDA inspected plants since the 1970s.

Recently the celery juice marketers have increased the amounts of nitrates to unnatural levels through concentration of the juice, several are selling it fermented, to reduce the nitrates to nitrite, a more effective curing material than Nitrate. Celery juice is far less safe than the refined chemicals which are added at parts per million, rather than in a range from a loosely controlled liquid which is converted through an imprecise process. THat is why many times you will see different colors in a pack of Natural hot dogs, or why they change color when you reheat them, the cure is not fully established.

Face it, an all beef hot dog is safer than a natural or organic. Meat processors can't make money if they do not treat their animals humanely. Abused animals are low in weight, low in meat quality, and therefore unprofitable.

I have worked with processors of both types of hot dog, "natural" cure and normally cured, normal is safer, the chemicals added are pure and controlled, the process is safe, and it doesn't contain nitrates which were banned in normal cures over 30 years ago, but are legal and present in natural cured products.

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Interesting. I'm not a biochemist by any means, but have been doing a little research into nitrites - from a cancer-causing perspective, apparently there is a difference between nitrite additives and nitrites that occur naturally in vegetables. Vegetables with nitrites also contain high levels of vitamins A and C, which it is theorized work to block the formation of carcinogenic nitrosamines in the human gut, explaining why nitrite containing veggies help protect from cancer, while synthetic nitrite additives in cured meats are shown to cause cancer.

I think food habits and taste preferences ARE established when the kid is areound the preschool age. I know a girl who's mm never fed her any vegetables. Now, she's gaining a little weight because she's eating junk food. So, by giving your children food earlier in life can result in them being used to it, and eating it later on. I'm not saying that you have to serve all vegetables and throw away all cookies. I'm just saying that you should try to get her to eat a little more healthier. If she absolutely doesn't, well there is probably nothing else you can do. But you should try.