tomato
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The tomato farms are found in the Kimana area, which is part of a corridor between Amboseli National Park and the Tsavo National Park in the south of Kenya.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
It was almost Dodger game time, and if the gondolas were up and running, they’d be close enough overhead that you could hit one with a tomato.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
I grated a ripe tomato into a bowl, an operation I find disproportionately satisfying.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
You can find many salads without lettuce as a main ingredient on the site, such as this eggplant purée with tomato salad or this summer medley of melon, mozzarella and prosciutto.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
The tomato sauce was rich and creamy with leaves of fresh basil, not dried.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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Keep foods like dried and canned beans, canned tomatoes, tinned fish, olive oil, and a variety of whole grains on hand so you always have something to cook with.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 16, 2026
"It could see that I had tomatoes out, some cucumbers and eggplants laid out on the floor," Yuriy said.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
I’ve served it with skirt steak, pork tenderloin, salmon, eggplant-driven pasta alla Norma and risotto made with fresh, ripe Jersey tomatoes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
And after several weeks of 90-degree days, I had become devoted to grating tomatoes, an activity especially suited to weather in which chewing can seem like an unreasonable demand.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
This’ll probably be one of the last times we’ll have it for months— we’ve almost run out of the tomatoes we canned from last summer.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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