Show love apple appleb popular the scarcity of forna tomatoes tois in th the past years otherwise abundant ab dundan harvests recalls something of the history of this romantic fruit ruit vegetable A sharp drop in production in some of the nations principal to mato growing areas means smalle domestic stocks of tomato soup juices stews ketchup and chill sauce this winter unseasonable weather is given as the cause one hundred years ago the to mato was just beginning an uphill ight for respectability as a food t DA 0 04 MANT AMOW i item indians of the andes had cultivated it since about 1000 A D the aztecs azteca of mexico caveat gave it the name that cortez inen men a ered erd into tomato and they probably sold said toh mah toe and the spaniards took it back to europe but there it was wag recognized as a member of the deadly nightshade night shade family it was wrinkled and small and was known as the love apple in europe and later in north nort h america and for centuries the supposedly poisonous fruit was nothing more than a garden ornament |