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Bring a tomato, taste a tomato

By Mary MacVean
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So you think you’ve got some pretty Paul Robesons? A bowl full of elegant Early Girls? Pretty Piccolos? Bring them on, along with Radiator Charlie’s Mortgage Lifters, Cherokee Chocolates or any other terrific tomatoes you’re growing.

One perfectly ripe, correctly identified home-grown tomato is the admission price for Tomatomania’s tasting on Saturday at Loteria Grill in Hollywood. Chef-owner Jimmy Shaw is playing host for a second year to a gathering of tomato-obsessed gardeners.

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Growers share stories, ask questions and taste one another’s crops. Tomatomania is a seedling sale that occurs at several locations each year.

The event doesn’t cost money, but reservations are required: (323) 465-2500.

-- Mary MacVean

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Mary MacVean

Mary MacVean is the former Mind & Body editor at the Los Angeles Times. She’s a runner and a cook, and has worked at The Times as morning assignment editor, web liaison, food writer and copy editor. She was a national editor and writer focusing on food at the Associated Press and a features editor and a columnist in Moscow, where she also ran a children’s cooking school. She left The Times in 2015.

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