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I would just about anything to get some good quality tomatoes right now. The kind we get here look like tomatoes but it's just a trick of the eye. They taste like a watered down cousin of the tomato. I met a chef recently who explained that while tomatoes can grow here, the tropical heat encourages them to grow very quickly. As a result they develop none of the sugars that a more slow growing North American or European variety does.
As for heirlooms... anything that preserves that kind of flavour over the industrially farmed varieties gets my vote. The few I have eaten in the past, were so bursting with flavour that I renewed my love of the tomato all over again.
Sigh.
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