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New
Food Cookbook Chapter: Heirloom Tomatoes
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Heirloom
Tomatoes
- Origin
and cultivation: tomatoes
are a New World fruit, native to the Americas; generally understood to be any
tomato that isn't red, smooth and round; they are sometimes defined as varieties
that are over 100 years old, pre-WWII, or by other dates
- Availability:
summer at farmers markets and increasingly, year-round at grocery stores as some
heirloom varieties are being grown on a larger commercial scale
- Appearance:
colors range from green to yellow to orange to dark burgundy to purple to
brown; tend to be open pollinated causing a lot of variety; grape, cherry and
pear tomatoes in different colors beyond red are becoming increasingly common
- Flavor:
like great tomatoes
- Trivia:
when
first brought to Europe, people considered them poisonous
- Recipes:
Heirloom
Tomato Tabouli Salad Heirloom
Tomato Goat Cheese Toasts Chorizo
with Colored Grape Tomatoes and Saffron Rice Wild
Striped Bass with Heirloom Cherry Tomatoes in Paper Heirloom
Tomato Mozzarella Basil Orecchiette | |
