{"id":2203,"date":"2012-06-01T17:00:30","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T21:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=2203"},"modified":"2012-06-01T10:11:15","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T14:11:15","slug":"you-say-tomato-i-say-tomahto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2012\/06\/01\/you-say-tomato-i-say-tomahto\/","title":{"rendered":"You say tomato, I say tomahto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a gardener, you may start your own seedlings or buy them from a <a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2204\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2012\/06\/01\/you-say-tomato-i-say-tomahto\/tomato\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2204\" title=\"tomato\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/05\/tomato-300x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/05\/tomato-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/05\/tomato.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>nursery or mooch them from a friend who starts plants. In any case, you&#8217;ve probably been&#8211;or are about to be&#8211;planting tomatoes. I put in (horrors) 42 plants last week&#8211;so many varieties I love, some heirloom, some commercial standbys.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, I have tomatoes on my mind. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/31\/science\/the-tomato-ripe-juicy-and-bursting-with-genes.html?nl=todaysheadlines&amp;emc=edit_th_20120531\">This article <\/a>showed up in the <em>New York Times<\/em> today, just when I thought nothing about tomatoes could surprise me. How about this: plant geneticists have sequenced the tomato&#8217;s genome and discovered 31,760 genes, about 7,000 more than a person.<\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally (or, again, maybe all things tomato are jumping out at me at this time of year), I also stumbled on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/krulwich\/2012\/05\/24\/153583873\/do-plants-smell-other-plants-this-one-does-then-strangles-what-it-smells\">this wonderful story<\/a> from Robert Krulwich which describes an experiment proving that the dodder plant can &#8220;smell&#8221; a tomato plant. Check it out&#8211;complete with video and drawings. I grew up in Manhattan so it wasn&#8217;t until my early twenties that I first smelled the distinctive odor of a tomato vine&#8211;thanks to an old Italian man who grew tomatoes and figs in his backyard in New Jersey. An unforgettable aroma.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tomatoes on your mind? Share a favorite recipe&#8211;something you like to do with those first ripe tomatoes out of the garden. <\/strong>(I make many a meal out of tomatoes drizzled with a bit of olive olive, basil, salt and pepper and several ears of fresh corn. Who needs anything more?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a gardener, you may start your own seedlings or buy them from a [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[87,5670,5903],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}