If You Were a Food, What Would You Be?

[Tom Wagner]

Preeti Mistry; She was asked this question and.....you read the rest.


If she were a food, she says, “I would be a green zebra tomato - extremely distinctive from all the others, a little hard on the outside, but pure love at the center.”

Preeti works as an Executive Chef for Bon Appetit Management Company at Google’s headquarters south of San Francisco and previously the de Young Museum in San Francisco. Born in London and raised in the US, Preeti’s Indian culture, extensive international travel, classic French culinary training and access to the best local California ingredients inspire her cooking. She enjoys building intense flavors, and truly shines when working with sauces, soups and vinaigrettes. Preeti’s commitment to seasonality, and her relationship with small local farmers are at the core of her cuisine. If she were a food, she says, “I would be a green zebra tomato - extremely distinctive from all the others, a little hard on the outside, but pure love at the center.”

I have been eating Green Zebra tomatoes for over 36 years now. That makes me about 85% Green Zebra by weight and mentality....extremely distinctive from all the others, a little hard on the outside, but quite full of it at the center.

Tom Wagner

[kctomato]

could be worse

could be full of Green Doctors

[Tom Wagner]

Not sure if you mean full of trout flies or tomatoes by the name of Green Doctors or if some reference was made to someone who likewise is modestly full of it related to a certain Dr. of tomatoes?

Galina's, a deep gold cherry with PL foliage, ditto
Dr. Carolyn, derived from Galina's, also mentioned above
Green Doctors, a mutant of Dr. Carolyn and just superb, better than Green Grape I think, available to SSE listed members but not yet available commercially as far as I know although I've sent seeds to a couple of places and hope it's available soon. Appeared in the tomato patch of someone in southern NYS. The name Green Doctors is a trout fly but also recognizes the person who found it, who has a Ph.D as well as me, with same, who found the original Dr. Carolyn variety, which, BTW someone else named, not me. LOL

Your witty single sentence zinger reminds me of future breeding agendas already in progress. I will have perfected the Woolly Blue Zebra in the next few months and with the already perfected line of the combination of Black Sea Man, 77208, Brandywine and Campari...called Blackballed....I have the obvious choice to cross the Wooly Blue Zebra with Blackballed to create the Woolly Blueballed variety of tomato.

[grungy]

Tom, remember us when you are ready to release for trialling any of the above. And in case I do not remember to tell you before you leave, have a great time overseas and please let us all know what happened at you lectures.
Cheers,
Grungy / Val

[kctomato]

(wolly x Eva Purple Ball) x Big Zac = Wooly Ballzac