Doing something a little different on the blog today. We're going to talk about a tomato. Not a Green Zebra or a Big Boy or an Early Girl. Not how to cook with tomatoes, or the taste of tomatoes*, or how tomatoes behave in recipes.
Instead, let's talk about Tomato Nation.
It's a great site run by Sarah Bunting, and most of the year I read it just for entertainment. There's The Vine advice column, and readers hunting for the vaguely-recalled books of their youth, and entertaining writing all over the place. (There's also baseball, which I understand about as well as particle physics. My loss.)
But once a year Tomato Nation runs a contest through Donors Choose. This year it's called Bet Red.
Teachers tell you what they need for their classrooms. You pick where your money goes. I gave** to some projects for kids on the spectrum, and some inner-city programs that encourage reading. These kids need help to succeed. Their teachers are trying to give them that help. Let's do our part.
* Actually, I don't like the taste of tomatoes. One of my weird aversions. Tomato sauce, tomato ketchup, sun-dried tomatoes, these are all okay. But fresh tomatoes? Yuck. That said, for the sake of dinner guests I have been known to make a killer gazpacho.
(pictured above: the killer gazpacho in question)
** I got thank-you notes. They made me cry.
We still love Sars! (and Glark.)
Posted by: Russ | October 09, 2009 at 10:49 AM