They’re not just pretty to look at. Here’s everything you need to know about these late-summer treasures.

When it comes to good food, the quality of ingredients often matters far more than the quantity. This is especially true of simple recipes involving the freshest ingredients, like perfectly ripe ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We Southerners have a special kinship with heirloom tomatoes. They star in so many of our favorite seasonal dishes, from stunning ...

Cut open your ripe tomato and squeeze the seeds and surrounding pulp into a colander. Give them a quick rinse to remove some ...

It is high season for tomatoes right now. Your local farmers’ market probably has a whole color spectrum of heirloom tomatoes, from red to green and purple, deepening to almost black. Heirloom ...

Heirloom tomato cultivation is quite literally a labor a love. While modern hybrids are bred for traits like disease resistance, heirloom varieties have minimal such protection. But anyone who’s ...

Durham, N.C.-based variety development company Upstream Biotechnology and Bene Seeds Inc., a California-based provider of tomato seed products say they have formed a strategic business and R&D ...

Bring back lively flavor with these best-tasting tomato varieties. Grow heirloom tomatoes varieties in your garden to be used in delicious recipes There’s no other way to say this: Tomato flowers are ...

Tomato season has arrived! Farmers' markets and some grocery stores are overflowing with delicious heirloom tomatoes. On The Saturday Early Show, P. Allen Smith will tell us what an heirloom tomato is ...

Is there a reason why store-bought tomatoes don't taste that good? It may have something to do with what they're bred for.