Ripe tomatoes
A fruit of the Andes, domesticated in Mexico, now the base of half the world's sauces.
Kinds
- Cherry
- Sweetest, and the most reliable out of season.
- Beefsteak
- Big and meaty, for slicing.
- Heritage
- Irregular, often the most flavourful, short-lived.
Knowing it
- Where to buy
- They should smell of tomato at the stalk.
- Worth knowing
- Never refrigerate — cold kills the flavour and turns the flesh mealy.