Why Tomatoes Suck
"Pink, mealy, and tasting like a whole lot o' nothing, this sure isn't the juicy scarlet orb you picked from your mother's garden as a kid." Wired explains why tomatoes suck, at least if they're conventional ones from a supermarket.
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3 Comments:
Ugh. And true. Double ugh. A long time ago, I went to look at an apartment for rent in Italy. The landlord was a tomato farmer. The entire apartment floor was covered in tomatoes, rich and red. It was a stone building, still cold in the summer, and the fruit was almost obscenely red and pungent. His wife would take it all and make sauce for the fall and winter. Just insane. In the States, better grow your own; the crappermarket stuff is just that: crap.
TikiPundit at 3:55PM on 01/22/08
We can only sit back & count the days until summer gardens bring us the homegrown ones:(
JEP at 5:01PM on 01/22/08
"only in the summer" - there, you have the answer in the short post. I have long given up buying "fresh" tomatoes out of season, I rather use a good canned variety (San Marzano come to mind). Color is no criterion (those Dutch greenhouse tasteless wonders are beautiful color-wise). So wait for the season, when, as TikPundit notes about his Italian experience, you can buy in bulk and make sauce or can for the long winter month.
epices6 at 6:18PM on 01/22/08