"Ophelia" > wrote in message
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> "sf" > wrote in message
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>> On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 18:04:09 +0300, Opinicus
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>>> On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 15:27:04 +0100, "Ophelia"
>>> > wrote:
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>>> >>>Conversely, tomato paste is a concentrated form of tomato sauce.
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>>> >> Nope... sauce is seasoned, paste is just tomato.
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>>> I wondered when someone was going to catch that. In villages here in
>>> when tomatoes have become dirt cheap in late summer you'll still see
>>> houses whose slightly pitched roofs are completely covered with ripe
>>> tomatoes laid out on plastic sheeting. The fruits are left there until
>>> most of the mosture has evaporated. I'm not sure what the finishing
>>> steps are but I know they include mashing-up and salt. The resulting
>>> tomato paste is some of the densest and most delicious you'll ever
>>> find. Because it's salted it keeps better than the store-bought kind
>>> but it's still more than we could ever use, hence the tubes.
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>> Catch what? It was a simple answer to someone who couldn't figure out
>> that tomato paste is concentrated tomato.
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> If I am the 'someone' to whom you refer, I asked a question! Remember?
> And as it happens, you were wrong.

Actually, she wasn't. Or might not have been. You can get either product,
seasoned or not seasoned. You do have to read labels if you want to know
what is in what you are buying.