Show I Love Apple Popular I IThe The scarcity of tomatoes in the past years year's otherwise abundant harvests recalls something of the history of this romantic fruit- fruit vegetable A sharp drop in production in som some of ot the nations nation's principal to to- mato-growing mato areas means smaller domestic stocks of tomato soup juices stews ketchup and chili sauce this winter Unseasonable weather is given as the cause One hundred years ago the tomato tomato to to- mato was just beginning an uphill fight for respectability as a food tood PLAS TOH S. S 11 iI I P item Indians of ot the thc Andes had cultivated cul it since about 1000 A A. A D. D The Aztecs of Mexico gave it the name that Cortez men a ered into tomato tomato and and they probably said toh mah And the Spaniards took it ba back ck to Europe but there it 11 was recognized as a member 01 ol the deadly shade night-shade family It was Vas wrinkled and small and was known as the love apple in Europe and later In North Amer Amer- ica And for centuries the supposedly supposed supposed- ly poisonous fruit was nothing more than a garden ornament I |