30th June 2011
The Times
We should all take advantage of the glut of tomatoes and, like farmers in Abruzzo, make passata
The English tomato season is at its height — and how wonderfully different they can be from the watery, ethylene-ripened balloons from Holland we were eating all spring. All this week we’ve snacked from a pile of gorgeous heritage varieties, “lost” tomatoes with storybook names — Tiger, Green Zebra, Marmonde, Coeur de Boeuf. They are scarlet, green, orange and a deep maroon ribbed with lime like some mad interior decorator’s fantasy.
These all came from the Tomato Stall, of the Isle of Wight, that will despatch a 5kg sample box overnight, and at a special price for Times readers — see below. The smells are rich when the tomatoes sit in the sun, a great waft of summer. The smaller tomatoes have sat in a bowl like cherries, glowing enticingly — the level goes down with each visitor.
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