Jul 17 2008
‘Tis the Season For Heirloom Tomatoes
When it comes to tomatoes, all are most definitely not created equal.
And if you’ve ever had an heirloom tomato, you know exactly what I’m talking about.
Right now, my local Co-Op is overrun with big, beautiful heirloom tomatoes in all shapes and sizes.
According to Wikipedia, the list of heirloom tomato varieties includes:
Big Rainbow – One of dozens of large fruited yellow tomatoes with red swirls, having a mild, sweet flavor.
Blaby Special – A red fruited cultivar grown in the village of Blaby in Leicestershire until just after World War II.
Black Krim – A dark red to brown cultivar often cited in seed catalogs as being from the “island of Krim” in the Black Sea, better known as the Crimean peninsula in Ukraine (Crimea is known in Ukrainian as Krim).
Brandywine – A large fruited pink (red flesh, clear skin) variety produced on vigorous potato leaf foliage plants.
Cherokee Purple – One of the very first known “black”, or deep dusky rose colored cultivars.
Green Zebra – Often called an heirloom, it is not.
Hillbilly – See Big Rainbow, above.
Jubilee – A heavy yielding, golden fruit.
Lillian’s Yellow Heirloom - One of the few bright yellow fruited varieties, and the only one with potato leaf foliage, this is a delicious, full flavored tomato that is very meaty, with few seeds. It tends to be a late season variety.
Mortgage Lifter – The enormous pink tomatoes are sweet and tasty.
Traveler, syn. Arkansas Traveler – An open pollinated pink tomato in the 6 ounce range. Another cultivar commonly referred to as an heirloom, although by most definitions it is technically not.
Call it what you will, but I like any heirloom fresh off the vine, washed, cut, and sprinkled with salt and pepper with a drizzle of olive oil on top!
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