Sometimes it's tomatoes, picked a few minutes ahead of time, cut into quarters and barely heated in my old iron frying pan, with some olive oil and shredded fresh basil.
"Well, when it was tomato soup or whatever, normal persons got their food and those who were hypersensitive to it had to go through another entrance via the kitchen and get it directly from the storeroom.
It was tomato-based and savory, but not spicy.
Then it was tomatoes sold on the vine, the principal crop at Backyard Farms.
Balanced between smooth and grainy, clean and meaty, it sat in a thin, barely sweet sauce so light that I didn't realize it was tomato-based.
It is tomato-based, with honey molasses, pepper and "other stuff I'm not going to tell anybody about".
As part of the Tanzania Agricultural Productivity Programme (TAPP), USAID, through one of their many contractors, decided that it was tomatoes and peppers the women needed.
We might say "It's a tomato" but the word tomato is not actually the thing, it's just a label and indeed many languages have different labels.
It's a tomato sauce for the pasta.
