Mortal Foods

FoodShouldn’tLive Forever.

Sourdough pizza made with
real ingredients.

Our Pizza

Real food should die

Food shouldAct like food.

It should ferment. Bruise. Melt. Burn. Go stale. Eventually, go bad.

Somewhere along the way, America turned carbs into the enemy with highly processed wheat and chemical-packed bread. Bread should be simple. We use real ingredients so you can eat pizza without feeling like you swallowed a cinderblock.

Mortal Foods makes sourdough pizza from ingredients that sound suspiciously like food: flour, tomatoes, mozzarella, olive oil, basil, salt and time.

No potions. No magic. No thousand-year supply.

We ferment it slowly, fire it hot, freeze it at the good part, and let your oven finish the job.

Eat it while it’s good.

The pizza

Margherita

The pizza that has accepted its mortality.

  • Italian flour

    Imported soft white Italian wheat. American wheat is often packed with heavy protein and pesticides, making it hard to digest. Carbs aren’t the enemy—bad farming is.

  • Slow-fermented sourdough

    Flour, water, starter, salt. The natural fermentation process eats the sugar found in the wheat, so your body doesn’t have to.

  • Charred tomatoes

    Charred, bright, messy. We roast them to bring out a violent, natural sweetness so we never have to add sugar to our sauce.

  • Mozzarella

    Just milk, enzymes, vinegar, and salt. You don’t need anything more.

  • The rest

    Basil. Garlic. Flaky sea salt. Olive oil. Oregano. Thyme.

  • Then we freeze it

    Not instead of making pizza. After making pizza.

The cast

The Main Cast

Charred Tomato

Brings the acid, the sweetness, and most of the drama.

Mozzarella

Melts under pressure. Relatable. Just milk, enzymes, vinegar, and salt.

Basil

Shows up at the end, looks pretty, gets applause.

Garlic

Not technically the main character. Acts like it anyway.

Italian Flour

Italian. Naturally has opinions about dough.

Supporting Roles

Sourdough Starter

The only thing here that’s technically alive. For now.

Sea Salt

Small role. Huge ego.

Olive Oil

Makes everything better. Takes full credit.

Oregano

Tiny leaves. Massive pizza energy.

Thyme

We had some.

Parmesan

Aged for years. Still not immortal.

The immortals

The most unwanted.

A watchlist of grocery aisle necromancers and unnatural ingredients. You will never find them in our pizza.

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Wanted

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BHA & BHT

Charges:

The creepy twins. Wanted for keeping cheap fats alive long past their natural expiration date.

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Wanted

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IMITATION MOZZARELLA

Charges:

Franken-cheese. Wanted for impersonating dairy with vegetable oil and spite.

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Wanted

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POTASSIUM SORBATE

Charges:

Wanted for killing yeast and refusing to let food age with dignity.

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Wanted

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MODIFIED FOOD STARCH

Charges:

The ultimate imposter. Wanted for bulking things up in a lab because real ingredients cost too much.

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Wanted

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TBHQ

Charges:

Sounds like a wifi password. Wanted for acting like embalming fluid to extend shelf life to infinity.

How it dies

  1. 01

    Ferment

    Give it life

    Flour. Water. Starter. Salt. Then we wait.

    The crust gets a life before it gets a box.

  2. 02

    Fire

    Make it pizza

    We hit it with serious heat until the crust blisters, the tomatoes roast, and everything starts behaving badly.

    Cooked hot. Not cooked immortal.

  3. 03

    Freeze

    Stop the clock

    We freeze it. Not instead of making pizza, but after. We use a freezer as our natural preservative. No thousand-year supply of chemicals, just a natural pause button.

    Frozen at the good part. Not forever.

  4. 04

    Finish

    Bring it back

    Your oven gets the last few minutes. Crisp the crust. Melt the cheese. Take all the credit.

    Eat it while it’s good.

One pie. On purpose.

Get theStock alert

We make Mortal Foods in batches.

Not because scarcity is sexy. Because we’re making pizza, not preparing for the apocalypse.

Leave your email and we’ll tell you when the next batch lands.

Eat it while it’s good.

Warning: contains actual food.