21.   A good slicing tomato is meaty, with a fruity, complex taste and a pleasing balance of sugar and acid that can stand up to a vinaigrette.

22.   A tomato is a tomato, but when you cook it that changes the flavor of it.

23.   A. The original wild tomatoes were small fruits growing on rampant vines, and most of their cherry-size descendants are similarly exuberant.

24.   A. While most vegetables keep fresh longer in the refrigerator, tomatoes are definitely an exception.

25.   Add a little more sugar if tomatoes are acidic, but make sure salsa does not taste of sugar.

26.   Ah, the yellow pear tomatoes were ready.

27.   Alas, the tree tomato is one of those beguiling novelties that the nursery trade is so fond of.

28.   But when the tomatoes were good, they were very very good, some of them startling.

29.   But, as Dr. Gary R. Beecher, a research chemist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, pointed out, tomatoes are not just repositories of lycopene.

30.   California and Florida tomatoes were more uniform in size and lasted longer than his vine-ripened babies.