Summer Show! Ice Cream, Tomatoes, Watermelon, Corn and Fruit Crostata
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
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The Galopagos Tortoise
In 19 forty one, a dashing young botanist named charlie rick made 13 tripsto the andes. He found a small, almost a pea sized tomato he'd never seen there. So he brought thes glopagus tomatoes back, and he just couldn't get them to germinate. And finally, he thought of the galopagos giant tortoise,. which he had seen hanging out near some of the tomato plants in the islands. The seeds had an important trait. That is that instead of coming off at this with a piece of stem, the tomato would separate at the next weakest spot - right at the fruit.
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