The end of summer gives us one of the season’s most luscious parting gifts: colorful, juicy, vine-ripened tomatoes. Full of real tomato flavor, local varieties taste of summer itself – sun and grass and earth – all wrapped in a beautiful, gem-colored package. As a child walking through my uncle’s greenhouse, with tomatoes growing overhead in a fragrant arbor, the intoxicating scent of their vines cast a spell on me, and I’ve been hooked on them ever since. This time of year, local growers offer so many tasty varieties in all kinds of colors, shapes and sizes. These tomatoes are grown for their flavor, not just solely for their yield, like many conventional varieties. Too often what you find...
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