Comments on: Summer in their skins. http://www.premodern.org/upsidedownpear/archives/2004/08/26/summer-in-their-skins/ Ramblings about food, cooking, and so on and so forth. Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:00:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rachel http://www.premodern.org/upsidedownpear/archives/2004/08/26/summer-in-their-skins/comment-page-1/#comment-45 Rachel Sun, 29 Aug 2004 19:57:49 +0000 /?p=27#comment-45 God, yes. I can't eat tomatoes at any other time of year -- not now that I know what real ones are like. The organic CSA farm where we belong grows a few different varieties of cherry tomatoes. Some are ripe when red; others are ripe when bright orange. I eat them like candy. I love the smell of tomato plants -- yesterday when we were picking plums and heirlooms (for "sun-drying" in the oven, and for crushing/freezing, respectively) I kept compulsively rubbing the vines and then sniffing my hands. There's something so sharp and alive and unmistakeable about that scent... God, yes. I can’t eat tomatoes at any other time of year — not now that I know what real ones are like.

The organic CSA farm where we belong grows a few different varieties of cherry tomatoes. Some are ripe when red; others are ripe when bright orange. I eat them like candy. I love the smell of tomato plants — yesterday when we were picking plums and heirlooms (for “sun-drying” in the oven, and for crushing/freezing, respectively) I kept compulsively rubbing the vines and then sniffing my hands. There’s something so sharp and alive and unmistakeable about that scent…

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