Globavores: Tomatoes

The Leonard Lopate Show | Oct 1, 2012

The first part of Globavores, our 8-week series about the Columbian Exchange, kicks off today with a look at the tomato and its 500- year journey from mesoamerica across the globe. We'll speak with Andrew Smith, culinary historian and author of The Tomato in America and with chef Lidia Bastianich, whose latest cookbook is  Lidia's Favorite Recipes.

Recipe: Lidia Bastianich's Spaghetti and Pesto Trapanese

Tomato Recipes from listeners

Share your favorite tomato recipe below!

 

Find out where all the tomatoes shipped into the Hunts Point market in New York City come from this time of year (courtesy of The New York World).

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