Category: Fruits

San Marzano tomatoes are perfect for roasting. The roasting concentrates the flavors, and the normally flavorful san marzanos will become even more so. And if the tomatoes aren’t straight-up amazing before roasting, the roasted tomato sauce will give you a ton of the flavor that you’re looking for. What can I do with my San […]

This is primarily a cooking variety, superb for recipes which require passata or any type of tomato sauce. It’s a meaty tomato with lots of body and has excellent taste as an eater. It’s well suited to growing outdoors in the UK and also in greenhouses. Are San Marzano tomatoes hard to grow? Novice gardeners […]

Tomatoes for Mutti’s sauces, Polpa and passata are grown in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, known as ‘the food basket of Italy’, and surrounding regions. Varieties that are canned whole (including cherry, baby Roma and San Marzano) are grown in southern Italy. What kind of tomatoes does Mutti use? For example Mutti’s Datterini (or […]

The quality varies wildly from tin to tin, making it extremely difficult to pick the best tinned tomatoes for your recipe. Whether you are making a pasta sauce, moussaka or a shakshuka, the quality and type of your tinned tomatoes really matters. Are all canned tomatoes the same? Depending on the type of canned tomato […]

Italy. Mutti S.p.A., Via Traversetolo, 28, 43022 Montechiarugolo, Italy. Where do Mutti tinned tomatoes come from? Mutti tomatoes are primarily grown in northern Italy, in the Emilia-Romagna region. Additional varieties are grown in the south in Puglia and Campania. Is Mutti Russian? Muti was born in Rome to a Neapolitan journalist father and Ilse Renate […]

Mutti crushed tomatoes are the best tasting I’ve ever had from a can – very fresh and versatile for many recipes. If I was reviewing only the content of the cans, it would be five stars. The pricing for this pack is well below what I can find in the stores. However, every single one […]

The preserve of cannellino tomato is really a good fit for the Margherita pizza thanks to its juiciness, sweetness and strong salinity, which provide new shades of flavours to a Margherita pizza that could be unusual as well as very tasty. Which tomatoes are best for pizza? The Best Tomatoes for Pizza Italian Plum tomatoes […]

These letters indicate the diseases or pests to which the variety has resistance. Some tomato varieties you are likely to find at local nurseries that are resistant to root-knot nematodes include Celebrity, Better Boy, Better Boy Bush, Early Girl Bush and Park’s Whopper. Which variety of tomato is resistant to root-knot nematode? Trials carried out […]

How to use it. Use in recipes that call for any canned tomato – diced, crushed – OR tomato passata. Add it at the time the recipe calls for the canned tomato to be added. Cook it just like it’s normal canned tomato! What can you use instead of canned tomatoes? Canned tomatoes can easily […]

Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Miller) is an important vegetable crop widely cultivated in China. According to the climate, four ecological districts of tomato cultivation can be distinguished, namely Southern District, Middle and Eastern District, Northern District, and Northeastern District. Why are there no tomatoes in Chinese food? Because tomatoes lack the significance in Chinese culture that […]

“The flavour got lost because people didn’t know what the molecular and genetic bases were, so they couldn’t apply them. It was because they focused on quantity, productivity and resistance. What we’ve discovered is that they basically lost these volatile compounds that we’ve identified in this study.” Why do tomatoes taste different now? In 2019, […]

While many household soaps are effective when it comes to eradicating insects, they should not be used as tomato plant bug repellents because they are not meant to be used in gardens and can be just as toxic to beneficial insects as they are to pests, says the University of Florida IFAS Extension. Can you […]

Cherokee Purples are generally resistant to Fusarium Wilt and Septoria, the most common of tomato diseases. If they are kept healthy, these heirlooms will resist nearly every disease and most pests as well. Are Cherokee Purple tomatoes hard to grow? All tomato plants need extra attention, but the Cherokee Purple is fairly easy to grow […]

One final widespread use of vinegar with tomatoes is as a fungicide. To use the mixture, stir 2 to 3 tablespoons of white or apple cider vinegar into a gallon of water and mist it thoroughly over the affected tomato plants on both the tops and undersides of the leaves (fungi often begin to grow […]

There are two types of blight that threaten tomatoes — early and late — but Epsom salts are not an effective treatment for either. What is the best treatment for tomato blight? 3 Steps to Treating Tomato Blight Remove infected plant portions. The most essential aspect of treating blight is to remove and destroy any […]

‘Sun Gold’: Considered by many to be the gold standard of cherry tomatoes for it’s sweet, sugary taste, ‘Sun Gold’ is an early ripening variety that continues to produce prolifically until frost. A single ‘Sun Gold’ plant can produce over 1000 tomatoes! What is the most productive cherry tomato plant? Baby Boomer (Hybrid) A prolific […]

Different areas of Italy favor different varieties of tomato. The tomato, it turns out, has always been political. Brought to Europe by the Spanish when they colonized the Americas — it’s an Aztec plant, as we can tell by its original name, “tomatl” — by the mid-1500s, it had made its way to Italy. Why […]

It uses a kitchen timer to break work into intervals, typically 25 minutes in length, separated by short breaks. Each interval is known as a pomodoro, from the Italian word for tomato, after the tomato-shaped kitchen timer Cirillo used as a university student. How does tomato clock work? Here’s how Cirillo’s Pomodoro method works: Make […]

From Italian pomodoro (“tomato”). The time interval comes from the Pomodoro kitchen timer, which is in the shape of a tomato. Is pomodoro a tomato? Pomodoro sauce is a tomato-based pasta sauce made from fresh tomatoes, garlic, olive oil, and fresh basil. In Italian, pomodoro means “golden apple,” because the traditionally cooks made the sauce […]

If you thought that the Italian word for tomato would sound like the English or the Spanish tomate, think again: the word is actually pomodoro (masculine, plural: pomodori)! It literally means “apple of gold” (pomo d’oro) in Italian, a reference to the colour of the tomato before it becomes fully ripe. What is a pomodoro […]