When it comes to good food, the quality of ingredients often matters far more than the quantity. This is especially true of simple recipes involving the freshest ingredients, like perfectly ripe ...

Each spring Spencer Huey brings thousands of homegrown heirloom tomatoes to a parking lot in Berkeley, California, for a one-day community sale. “I grow 50 varieties of tomatoes and 2,500 plants,” ...

Keep it juicy.

It is high season for tomatoes right now. Your local farmers’ market probably has a whole color spectrum of heirloom tomatoes, from red to green and purple, deepening to almost black. Heirloom ...

Discover why grocery store tomatoes lack flavor and join a local tasting event to find the perfect summer fruit.

Even when you know a thing or two about tomatoes, the wide world of the much-loved fruit is enormous — there are at least 10,000 varieties out in the world. That might seem hard to believe when you ...

Saving seeds from favorite heirloom plants stretches a gardening budget while preserving varieties that earned a permanent ...

Tomato season has arrived! Farmers' markets and some grocery stores are overflowing with delicious heirloom tomatoes. On The Saturday Early Show, P. Allen Smith will tell us what an heirloom tomato is ...