June 12, 2011Tasteless tomatoes explained
Someone in the know finally said what we all know about supermarket tomatoes - the flavor is just not there.
A tomato farmer confessed as much to Barry Eastbrook, author of “Tomatoland: How modern industrial agriculture destroyed our most alluring fruit.” The farmer sums it up this way: “Barry, I don’t get paid a cent for flavor, not one cent. I get paid for weight.”
More reason to grow your own.
Read the book review at Salon.com. Find the book here.
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Patricia says:
And it is the same for peaches, nectarines, strawberries, carrots, cabbage and every thing else we eat. This results in dumbing down our taste buds to the point we need sugar, salt, butter, whatever, to give our food taste. It also, I do believe, causes people to eat fewer fruits and vegetables.
However, it allows us to feed more people for less money.
Isn’t there a middle ground somewhere???
Posted on June 13, 2011 at 6:42 am.