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Get Cooking: How to treat the noble tomato - The Denver Post
Well, the food Gestapo has at least one thing right: Do not buy tomatoes outside of summer. Winter’s puck-like pink cardboard orbs are tomatoes in name alone. They are abominable.
Someone once wrote, “It is the duty of a wine to be red.” It is the duty of a tomato to be juicy. One of the only foods worth losing is half a tomato’s juice running down your chin, because the other half is by that time running down your throat.
“My favorite tomato,” says Charlie Brown, former Denver City Council member and avid home gardener, “is the first one off the vine.” Brown has “close to 80 tomato plants” in his patch and says that this year’s growing season “has been above-average,” due mostly “to the early heat.”
“Tomatoes to me,” he adds, “say ‘hello’ to summer.”
Well, the food Gestapo has at least one thing right: Do not buy tomatoes outside of summer. Winter’s puck-like pink cardboard orbs are tomatoes in name alone. They are abominable.
Someone once wrote, “It is the duty of a wine to be red.” It is the duty of a tomato to be juicy. One of the only foods worth losing is half a tomato’s juice running down your chin, because the other half is by that time running down your throat.
“My favorite tomato,” says Charlie Brown, former Denver City Council member and avid home gardener, “is the first one off the vine.” Brown has “close to 80 tomato plants” in his patch and says that this year’s growing season “has been above-average,” due mostly “to the early heat.”
“Tomatoes to me,” he adds, “say ‘hello’ to summer.”