Bake tomato cups until edges are browned and tomatoes are softened, about 30 minutes. Break each egg into a small dish or bowl and pour into baked tomato shell. Repeat until all tomatoes are filled.

Then there was a row of large, bulbous Yellow Brandywine tomatoes and the new-to-me yellow-and-red-tinged Pineapple tomato. And so many more. Some tomato-picking tips: ...

There are close to 6,000 varieties of cultivated tomatoes out there, according to Amy Goldman, author of The Heirloom Tomato: From Garden to Table (Bloomsbury, 2008), and you can find not a few of ...

Two healthy, but not "giant," Brandywine tomatoes sit on a nine-inch plate with a small eggplant, a golden tomato and a small slicer tomato. (Mike Prager / The Spokesman-Review) This has been a ...

TomatoFest Garden Seeds reports "black" tomatoes rank high in the top 10 list of favorite heirloom varieties going into 2008. The top 10 favorite heirloom tomatoes are: Paul Robeson (purple/black ...

Brandywine tomatoes: Heirloom tomato lovers tend to be passionate about their preferences. Cherokee Purple, Black Krim, Radiator Charlie’s Mortgage Lifter . . . . All of these can be great ...

A tomato is more than it seems; it represents taste, access and even identity. Rare heirlooms like Cherokee Purple and Green ...

GRANBY – Ryan and Sarah Voiland of Red Fire Farm won loads of laurels at the Massachusetts Tomato Contest in Boston this year – again. This time their Brandywine tomatoes did double duty ...

He’s tried more than 300 varieties of tomatoes. And he’s growing 81 varieties this year, ranging from tiger-striped tomatoes that taste like pineapple to the blue-colored Indigo Rose in his ...

Q: I would like to thank you for all your help and inspiration over the years. For example, after reading a column where you talked about heirloom tomatoes I decided to find out more about these ...