[📸 photo: @thefoodgriot ] … from a 'sequence of ‘fresh tomato’ beauty shots i took at the NY Botanical Garden in the Bronx one recent summer…

Newsflash: Tomatoes Come in All Kinds of Delicious, Nutritious Colors, Shapes & Sizes…

Seems significantly too early in the season, nonetheless — according to the folks who create the “National Today” calendar, today is National Fresh Tomato Day…which is celebrated on April 6th each year with the aim to “appreciate the beauty and health of fresh tomatoes”. …

The not-so-humble tomato has a fascinating (now) global history with humans (and other earthly creatures). Beginning with Mesoamerican indigenous people who first cultivated this now ubiquitous nightshade plant, thousands of years ago…

In fact, Fried GREEN Tomatoes is a specialty of mine that extended fam friends ask me to make — often. There’s a whole story behind it (surprised?). Holla if you wanna hear it . Gone are the days of me auto dishing up erry single food story — there are sooo many!

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