Article: Tried green tomatoes? There's more than one way to capture this last taste of summer.

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The Boston Herald
Article date:
October 4, 1998
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It's time to face facts: Any tomatoes you've still got clinging to the vine are never going to turn red. (Or, if they do, it will be on your kitchen counter or windowsill, which isn't quite the same as vine-ripening.) So, depending on how many tomato plants you put in last spring, you may find yourself with a bumper crop of green tomatoes.

Don't even think of tossing them out. When life hands you green tomatoes, make chutney, or pickles, or any other recipe that calls for the firm, tart fruit.

Thanks to a certain movie released a few years back, most people, if they think of green tomatoes at all, picture them fried. And if you've never actually tried ...

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