Tomatono Joe

Ingredients Tomatoes are the main ingredient in tomato juice, and that's all you need for a basic juice. You'll find that it has a better taste if you season it with a little salt and black pepper. Other spices can be added as well. Consider adding a little paprika, onion powder, celery salt, other flavored salts, or anything in your spice rack that seems like a good fit. If you want to make it a little spicy, cayenne, chili powder, or a few drops of hot sauce will do the trick, but go easy. You can always add more spice later when you're actually going to use the juice. Preparation The old-fashioned way to juice tomatoes eliminates the need for a juicer. It's a relatively simple process, and in the end, you'll have jars of perfectly preserved tomato juice. Begin by washing your tomatoes. Then, remove the core, blossom ends, and any damaged spots. Cut the clean tomatoes into quarters, and place them in a sauce...

Tomatitto Introduction From wild, blueberry-like fruit to the large domesticated tomatoes that people enjoy today, the evolution of one of the world’s most popular crops has been somewhat of an enigma until now. Piecing together gaps in its history, a new genetic study suggests the modern tomato is more likely related to weed-like fruit in Mexico than to semi-domesticated versions in South America as commonly thought. This discovery challenges the simplified notion that tomato domestication comprised two key transitions: from the wild  Solanum pimpinellifolium  L .  to the cherry-sized  S. lycopersicum  L. var.  cerasiforme  (SLC) and then to the fully domesticated  S. lycopersicum  L. var. lycopersicum. “We found that the SLC, this ‘intermediate’ group, has had a much more varied evolutionary history than simply being a stepping stone between wild and modern cultivated tomatoes,” explains senior author Ana Caicedo from the...