SUMMER MEALS MEAN TOMATO BISCUITS WITH BOOMER.(LOCAL)

From: The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA) | Date: July 29, 2000 | Copyright information

A reader called a week or so ago to ask where to find tasty tomatoes.

Now they are everywhere.

No other region outdoes Hampton Roads producing tomatoes.

It's a heritage, a holdover from half a century ago when truck farms hereabouts shipped tomatoes along the East Coast.

And one good thing about tomatoes, they seem to be easy to grow.

Just the other day a reader called to report the development of a square tomato which, he observed, was just right for making tomato sandwiches.

That would figure.

I've been leaning to tomatoes with biscuits, lately, ...

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