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Food52's Best Heirloom Tomato Recipe Showdown: Vote For The Best Dish

Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

For the past year, Food52.com readers have been voting in weekly showdowns of reader-submitted recipes on a given theme. The winning recipes of each w...

The Nine Lives of Roasted Garden Fresh Tomatoes

Mary Ann Esposito | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Mary Ann Esposito

I have waited patiently for this season's crop, and they have come in early and with great abandon. I am looking ahead though, planning on preserving as many as I can.

Home-Cooked Salsa

Big Girls, Small Kitchen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Big Girls, Small Kitchen

The size and flavor of your tomatoes and your hot peppers matter a lot

Urban Agriculture Booms in Seattle

Valerie Easton | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Valerie Easton

Driven by a passion seen all over town, from burgeoning P-Patches to residents cultivating forsaken bits of soil, Seattle's officials have declared 20...

Recession Recipe: Enchiladas Verdes (VIDEO)

EconomyBites | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
EconomyBites

The Tomatillo is a small, green fellow. He is essential to Mexican cuisine and he's the star ingredient in today's dish: Enchiladas Verdes.

Ketchup, the Best Condiment (RECIPE)

Big Girls, Small Kitchen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Big Girls, Small Kitchen

Though my homemade ketchup doesn't have the delightful undertones of Artificial Secret Ingredient #1 and Mystery Chemical #2, its saucy, tangy, and sweet-and-sour-ness will satisfy all your Heinzian needs.

Spaghetti for Breakfast

Big Girls, Small Kitchen | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Big Girls, Small Kitchen

I grew up in a household where leftovers were cherished, but mainly for breakfast.

Recession Recipe: Fettuccine with Meat Sauce

EconomyBites | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
EconomyBites

The longer this meat sauce sits in the fridge, the more the flavors meld and the more delicious it gets.

Chicago Feels The Squeeze As Florida Tomato Crop Wiped Out By Cold Winter

Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago

People in the tomato industry -- growers and wholesalers -- are calling the tomato shortage a "crisis." Blame freezing temperatures in mid-January th...

Trend-Spotting at the Northwest Flower and Garden Show

Valerie Easton | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Valerie Easton

Got chickens? Fowl in the garden is only one of a torrent of trends on display at the country's third largest garden show. Starting tomorrow and runni...

Genetically-Modified Tomato Stays Fresh For SIX WEEKS

Daily Mail | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Tomatoes genetically modified to stay fresh for 30 days longer have been developed by scientists. The breakthrough could apply to other fruit - inclu...

Ode to Local Farms and Pablo Neruda

Anne Z. Boxer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Anne Z. Boxer

We bought a community supported agriculture share early in the spring. We are now more committed to eating locally and more understanding of how difficult that will be even in the nirvana of Boulder.

Sarah Palin: Tomatoes Thrown During Book Event, Police Arrest Jeremiah Wobbe

Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Fox News reports: A man was arrested for allegedly throwing two tomatoes at Sarah Palin from the second floor balcony during a book signing event at ...

Everybody Eats Where? At Home, at Work, On the Street?

Mara Gibbs | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Mara Gibbs

If you saw how many people have handled your produce from the time it is picked to its arrival on our dinner tables, you would never want to eat again!

How To Can And Preserve For Winter (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Eve Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Farm-fresh fruits and veggies make the summer scrumptious. So keep the summer flavors coming all winter with these delicious canning videos. Make sure...

The Top 10 Foods for Great Sex

Christina Pirello | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Christina Pirello

Wining and dining a date will more likely result in a great night's sleep rather than a great romp in the sack. To really get things going, you need to stimulate your 'circuitry,' your nervous and circulatory systems.

Veggie PR Spokesmom Tanya Steel on Julia Child, Snickers, and the Home Chef

Louise McCready Hart | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Louise McCready Hart

"A big point of my book is teaching kids how to love vegetables. Parents need to say, 'Oh my God, these vegetables are so good.'"

A Blight On Summer: Where Have All the Tomatoes Gone?

Michele Kayal | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Michele Kayal

This weekend I was asked to pass judgment on tomatoes. Which is far better than water because a) they have an actual taste, and b) good tomatoes are so hard to come by.

Green News Report - August 13, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

In Today's Audio Report: Another win for coal companies; of green roofs & red tomatoes...PLUS: Town Hall Follies, now with Clean Coal!

Living Without Abundant Tomatoes

nytimes.com | By Mark Bittman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Customers keep going into Applewood, a restaurant in Park Slope, and asking for a tomato martini. The drink, made with onion-infused vodka, muddled to...

Dan Barber's Op-Ed On The Tomato Catastrophe

nytimes.com | DAN BARBER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Of course, farmers aren't the only ones affected. If you love eating flavorful organic field tomatoes, good luck -- they'll be as rare this summer as ...

Go Green, Quit Exercising

Rebekah and Stephen Hren | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Rebekah and Stephen Hren

With so much work to be done to make our world a sustainable place, does it make any kind of sense to be expending precious calories in so wanton a matter?

Tomatoes Hate Men: Grow Faster When Women Talk To Them

Telegraph | Richard Alleyne, Science Correspondent | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Talking to plants makes them grow, especially if you are a woman, according to an experiment by the Royal Horticultural Society. Women gardeners' voic...

The Secret -- I Saw, Close-up, the Real Root of Global Economic Collapse

Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Frances Moore Lappe

Why do I call this modern-day form of slavery and its legal face -- this kind of gross injustice -- the secret of today's imploding economies?

The Tomato, the Banker, and the Alderman

Flora Lazar | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Flora Lazar

The Despres Tomato's characteristic thin skin and fragility are probably not a reflection of the 100-year-old alderman who was known throughout his career for his tenacity.