Have I got a Tomato for You
... Nothing could be finer than biting into that first ripe, red tomato that you have grown and watered all by yourself. ... I told him to shut up and eat. ... I gave hundreds of tomatoes to my friends, but they just kept on coming. After I ran out of friends, l decided to make tomato sauce. I found a fancy tomato press at Williams-Sonoma and took it home. By the time I was done, my kitchen looked like the site of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. But I accomplished my objective. Now I have enough tomato sauce to last six years. ... Buying tomatoes at the supermarket would be cheaper than the dirt I had to buy to grow my own in. ... I blame our hunter-gatherer brain stems, which are hardwired to believe that we will starve if we dont put food up for the winter. Perhaps this is why I cant bear to throw out even one tomato. ... I can neither sew, nor spin, build a house, or bale some hay. The only useful thing I can do is poke a hole in a pile of dirt and put a tomato plant in it.