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Home-dried tomatoes

Tomatoes drying in the sun, covered by cheesecloth.

Given the options for preserving the bounty of tomatoes – canning, freezing or drying – I prefer the method that combines the most flavor for the least amount of energy and storage space. Tomatoes dried in the sun (with a little help from a […]

Meet Juliet and Cosmonaut Volkov

In the great, northeastern tomato die-off of 2009, when late blight, riding the cool, moisture-laden air of an exceptionally rainy summer, infected nearly every tomato plant in the region, two tomato varieties emerged as my heroes, enabling us to eat fresh tomatoes until Thanksgiving and even preserve some. Juliet, the blight-resistant “sweet plum cluster” tomato […]