“We have stopped eating tomatoes in salad,” one shopper said, “and we are not making any tomato-based vegetable dishes.”
Tag: Tomatoes
Keeping an Old Italian Tradition Alive in Australia: ‘Passata Day’
Two sisters are among the dwindling few who gather family and friends once a year to make a 12-month supply of tomato passata, a purée that is a staple of Italian cuisine.
A New Way to Fight Crop Diseases, With a Smartphone
A hand-held device could help farmers identify blighted plants, and perhaps reduce agricultural losses. It’s like a strep test for tomatoes and tubers.
Meet Australia’s New Sex-Changing Tomato: Solanum plastisexum
A plant that grows in the country’s north has been found to exhibit an unpredictable sexual identity, challenging the idea of reproductive norms for other living things.