Word: heirlooms
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...devoted to raising interesting fruit," says Emma-Jane Lamont, curator of Britain's National Fruit Collections. A supermarket-friendly variety "must come into bearing early and provide regular heavy crops" of fruit that doesn't bruise easily and stores well. Some specialty grocers or farmer's markets do offer heirloom fruit varieties, and if you're lucky enough to find some, you can try the 19th-century recipes added to this edition of Pomona Britannica. These recipes give a sense of what was done with fruit back in the day when a "generous amount of sugar" was as precise...
...showcase the scarlet globes. Alain Ducasse at the Essex House in New York City serves an appetizer of roasted tomatoes in a tomato gelee topped by tomato tuilles. Melisse in Santa Monica, Calif., offers an eight-course tomato tasting menu, and several eateries bake yellow-tomato cupcakes. The heirloom tomatoes that chefs like, including purple brandywines, green striped zebras and fuzzy blues, are popping up at farmers' markets and gourmet food shops, and the seeds are big sell- ers. But whatever types they buy, chefs say they look for the same qualities in tomatoes. They should be vine ripened, fragrant...
...didn't want a 60th birthday party but agreed to it under pressure lest I be thought a sorehead, and so all my jowly friends with thin dead hair sang Happy Birthday in their horrible ruined voices and we sat eating aged beef and heirloom tomatoes with a dry but experienced Chardonnay and old pals woofed about how happy and busy they are in retirement and gave me dumb birthday cards ("Welcome to the Incontinence Hotline ... Can you hold, please?") and a cake blazed up like the Hindenburg and some people I knew back when they were fun told...
...equally by everyone. The person who ends up buying the item will receive a portion of the bid price back when the money is divided among the group. Estate lawyers say auctions are a way for heirs to realize what they are willing to pay to secure a precious heirloom. The problem is that they do tend to reward those heirs who can afford to receive less cash...
...President Clinton's last state dinner, for India's Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee: Darjeeling tea, smoked poussin, chilled green pea and cilantro soup, marble potatoes, wild copper river salmon, red kuri squash and rice, bean ragout, Swiss chard custard, garlic-chanterelle emulsion, young greens and herb salad, heirloom tomatoes, dry aged cheese blossom and 25-year-old sherry dressing. Followed by mango and banner lotus, litchis and raspberry sauce, "a majestic tiger's delight," honey almond squares and chocolate coconut bars. It's not Indian takeout, but there are strong hints of the guest's own national cuisine...