Selection: Skin should appear deep, bright red (except heirloom tomatoes, which have different colors), without blemishes or bruises or discoloration. Feel: dense, firm, but not too hard; and without ...

Proctor School’s “Big Tomato Day” resumed this year with a virtual presentation and the distribution of tomato plants to the fifth graders. The Topsfield Garden Club has been sponsoring this ...

• Fruit or vegetable? Botanically speaking, a fruit. Horticulturally (and legally), a vegetable. In 1893, the U.S. Supreme Court legally classified the tomato as a vegetable because it’s used as one. ...

Topsfield’s first Tomato Festival will take place Sunday, Sept. 12, from noon to three on the Proctor School grounds. Designed as a family-friendly event with games, contests, live music, and a ...

Tomatoes can be good for you: They are a source of beta-carotene, lycopene, and vitamin C—all of which are antioxidants that may have benefits for heart and brain health. These nutrients may also ...

The 30th annual Creole Tomato Festival returns to the lower French Quarter this weekend with fresh new features — such as a bloody mary market, a splashy cookbook, outdoor yoga set to live music and a ...

From my perspective as a professional chef, I am less interested in the more obscure, magical beliefs that once vilified the ...