I'm growing about a dozen varieties of heirloom tomatoes this year, but my favorites for salsa are San Marzano, an Italian plum tomato that ripens to a brilliant red with clusters of five or six fruits on a vine, and Amish Paste, a large oblong tomato with a deep, sweet flavor.
We all agreed that there was no detectable vanilla, but that the wine was wonderful and that it was a brilliant match for the basil-perfumed salad of tomato with spanking-fresh buffalo mozzarella.
The finished soup is distinctly tricolor: the beans are creamy beige, the tomatoes bright red and the kale brilliant green.
This parsley-mint salad was brilliant green, studded with cracked wheat, diced onions and tomato, dressed with olive oil and lemon juice.
This idiosyncratic nursery, with its jumble of salvias, its climbing vines like moonflowers and purple hyacinth beans, its cardoons and 30 kinds of heirloom tomatoes, is a tribute to the opinionated, brilliant Jekyll.
My middle son had a brilliant time knocking holes in the bottom for drainage, and the tomato plants are now in.
The food is colorful, too: a kaleidoscope of corn, tomatoes, purple onions, yellow and red peppers and brilliant green herbs.
Or, as Rosenthal — the brilliant editor who died in 2006 — once said, Sulzberger "put more tomatoes in the soup".
In doing so, it has sought out off-beat entrepreneurs -- from Laloo's Goat's Milk Ice Cream to a company who produces festival-style tomato battles -- companies they say have one thing in common: brilliant entrepreneurs building awesome businesses.
