Tomatoes


Even tough it's hard to imagine, even the Italian kitchen doesn't know recipes with tomatoes for that long. It's only been for 100 years that the Italians realy started using tomatoes, even tough they where brought by the Spanish in the 16 century after one of there many trips to South America and they already started experimented with it.They where not red but jelow and where compared with apples, golden apples (pomodori) or in French love apples (pommes d' amour). The only good tomato is a ripe (mature) tomato from a good race, only then the sweet taste is developed enough. The problem is that it become soft, so it's hard to transport and makes it dificult for business. That's the reason why we started producing red tomatoes, the tomatoes would already have a nice colour even tough they where not mature yet, unfortuanatly this is the reason why tomatoes that we buy these days in the supermarkets doesn't have much taste. If you realy wan't to eat nice tomatoes you have to grow theme yourselph or need to now where you can buy tomatoes that where cutted only when they where mature. We can find tomatoes in many colours, red, jelow, green, purple and even almost black.                             

                                                                             Tomato cutter