Owen Pidgeon: A mixed tomato harvest

By Owen Pidgeon
Updated April 24 2015 - 10:08am, first published March 2 2015 - 12:38pm
A selection of home grown tomatos.
A selection of home grown tomatos.
Try turning some of your surplus tomatoes into delicious cold summer soups. Photo: John Killorn
Try turning some of your surplus tomatoes into delicious cold summer soups. Photo: John Killorn

If you have been harvesting and eating richly flavoured, home grown tomatoes in recent weeks, you are following in the footsteps of the Aztecs of Mexico, the Spaniards and the Italians. The Italian city of Naples was a Spanish territory in the 16th century but one of the benefits of this colonisation was that it was the first Italian region to receive the yellow ridged tomato, which provided the Italian name of pomodoro – the golden apple. Naples has been central to so much of the development of things tomato.

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