{"id":6780,"date":"2023-08-21T15:11:41","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T22:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=6780"},"modified":"2023-11-05T23:33:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T06:33:40","slug":"ninety-one-minus-one-four-two-we-have-opinions-on-tomatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/21\/ninety-one-minus-one-four-two-we-have-opinions-on-tomatoes\/","title":{"rendered":"[ninety-one] minus one-four-two: we have opinions on tomatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-21-at-6.05.02-PM-600x443.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6782\" width=\"714\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-21-at-6.05.02-PM-600x443.png 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-21-at-6.05.02-PM-300x221.png 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-21-at-6.05.02-PM-768x567.png 768w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-21-at-6.05.02-PM-640x472.png 640w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-21-at-6.05.02-PM.png 1407w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 714px) 100vw, 714px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So my wife is back from her business trip, and we and our housekeeper made a lunch of tomato sandwiches out of the remaining tomatoes that from my last grocery trip prior to Sandi&#8217;s return. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My wife is actually hesitant to buy tomatoes, as she&#8217;s gotten a lot of poor ones, and I realized that my youth growing up as a child of a produce wholesaler &#8211; from an ethnic community that has heavily tomato-flavored dishes &#8211; may have left me with some definite opinions about tomatoes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We all discovered we had firm opinions about tomatoes: that heirloom tomatoes are generally more flavorful, less meaty and dense, and generally better for sandwiches because they&#8217;re often wider and less juicy than their beefsteak companions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regardless, tomatoes may be on their way out this season, but they&#8217;re still good now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Get them while the getting is good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pictured: End-of-season tomato sandwich, and a hummus-lettuce-tomato salad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So my wife is back from her business trip, and we and our housekeeper made a lunch of tomato sandwiches out of the remaining tomatoes that from my last grocery&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[274,148],"class_list":["post-6780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes","tag-blogging-every-day","tag-the-guerilla-foodie","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6783,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6780\/revisions\/6783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}