Oh tomatoes, you delicious orbs of juicy sweet umami! Diced, sliced, fresh, fried, or saucy—even those who don’t love you can’t help but dip fries in ketchup or indulge in the comfort of a bowl of spaghetti and marinara. Any way you like to serve them, tomatoes are the most consumed vegetable in the world,¹ and as writer Barry Estabrook put it, “A real tomato’s taste is the distilled essence of sun, warm soil, and fine summer days.”² With such poetic flavour, how could I not love you from my head to-ma-toes?!