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I love tomatoes, and they're so good for you.

I've seen 'Fried Green Tomatoes' too many times. I love life stories told in flashback.

I once had an Early Girl tomato at my friend Jay's house, and I thought that was the best thing I'd ever had. But then I visited friends in Senegal, and I ate sea urchin pulled fresh out of the sea. It tasted like the ocean.

There is nothing better than picking up sun-warmed tomatoes and smelling them, feeling them and scrutinizing their shiny skins for imperfections, dreaming of ways to serve them.

I love to pick tomatoes at the end of the day, when they're still warm from the sun.

For me, summer hasn't really started until tomatoes reappear in local farmers' markets.

We always had our own vegetables growing up and now I'm doing it with my kids at our house in the country.

I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.

My parents had a gardener when I was growing up, and he and I would dig in the dirt together - my mom and dad were definitely not digging with me! When I was 5, he helped me plant some corn in our backyard, and I remember how fascinating it was to watch it grow. Little did I know that 50 years later I'd be growing corn in a different way.

Food brings back memories. I had a mom that wasn't a good cook, so I would eat my grandma's food. It was amazing because it brings back a time almost in Technicolor. I see her house, I see her stove; I think about what it felt like when I was sick, and it felt like love.