Tomatoes are essential ingredient for tomato sauce, pasta dishes, salads, cooking in general. It is unbelievable what kind of rubbish tomates we get in supermarkets. Grown in greenhouses, tasteless, lifeless without soul and juice. Toamtoes are suposed to be the paradise apples, the hormone Serotonin is responsible to evoce feelings on happiness (…)
Whilst they all look the delicious, on the grapes, different sizes, cherry sweet, cherry spicy sweet, plum, whatever. It has nothing to do with the real tomatoes that seduced me in Spain, in this small vegetable shop run by a local farmer and organic vegetable grower. Make a tomato Spaghetti Pomodoro Fresco with a “good” tomato and you will seduce any diner you cook for, just as the Paradise Apple (or tomato?) aparently seduced Adam and Eve, or the snake, cant remember.
Anyway, problem is that most people dont buy this delicious fruit, because they are expensive and sometimes slightly beaten, not like the supermarket artificial tomato which shine, are faultless and keep for days in the fridge. Same applies for fruits, we all want organic grown but impecably looking fruit and vegetable?
cliffwaterford