I recently returned from California where I attended a wine and food tasting.
Everything was delicious and the wines were perfect.

The big thing for me tho was a salad made of fresh corn , and tiny , tiny
tomatoes.
They were about the size of a pearl. I have never seen them before. They were
much smaller than the Grape Tomatoes.

Has any one had these before ? Can you buy them in other places , or was this
just a local delicacy?

Rosie

"RMiller" > wrote in message
...
> I recently returned from California where I attended a wine and food
tasting.
> Everything was delicious and the wines were perfect.
>
> The big thing for me tho was a salad made of fresh corn , and tiny ,
tiny
> tomatoes.
> They were about the size of a pearl. I have never seen them before.
They were
> much smaller than the Grape Tomatoes.
>
> Has any one had these before ? Can you buy them in other places , or
was this
> just a local delicacy?

Interesting. I live in CA and this is the first I have heard of them.

In article >,
(RMiller) wrote:

> I recently returned from California where I attended a wine and food tasting.
> Everything was delicious and the wines were perfect.
>
> The big thing for me tho was a salad made of fresh corn , and tiny , tiny
> tomatoes.
> They were about the size of a pearl. I have never seen them before. They were
> much smaller than the Grape Tomatoes.
>
> Has any one had these before ? Can you buy them in other places , or was this
> just a local delicacy?


I live in California and you can find these in my back yard. I'm not sure
why (maybe lack of water?), but some of my cherry tomatoes are that size.
They started out as regular size cherry tomatoes, but now some are tiny
and some aren't.

--
Dan Abel
Sonoma State University
AIS

RMiller wrote:
>
> I recently returned from California where I attended a wine and food tasting.
> Everything was delicious and the wines were perfect.
>
> The big thing for me tho was a salad made of fresh corn , and tiny , tiny
> tomatoes.
> They were about the size of a pearl. I have never seen them before. They were
> much smaller than the Grape Tomatoes.
>
> Has any one had these before ? Can you buy them in other places , or was this
> just a local delicacy?
>
> Rosie



I have a few tiny ones at the top of my Sweet 100 tomato
plants. They are cute but the skins are very tough and
make up too large a percentage of the fruit.

gloria p

RMiller wrote:
>
> I recently returned from California where I attended a wine and food tasting.
> Everything was delicious and the wines were perfect.
>
> The big thing for me tho was a salad made of fresh corn , and tiny , tiny
> tomatoes.
> They were about the size of a pearl. I have never seen them before. They were
> much smaller than the Grape Tomatoes.
>
> Has any one had these before ? Can you buy them in other places , or was this
> just a local delicacy?
>
> Rosie

Haven't seen them for sale. Those are what we get from the grape tomato
plants when I don't water them enough LOL! Logical enough step to breed
them down some more.

Several years ago, I got some seeds of a mostly wild tomato variety from
Native Seeds Search (www.nativeseeds.org). The fruit were the size of
berries with a deep, strong tomato flavor. When I stopped planting
tomatoes, they continued to volunteer for years. Our old dog, Jet, used to
nibble the ripe ones right off the bush.

I just checked their web site; they don't seem to have that variety any
more. This looks like the closest thing in their current catalog:
http://www.nativeseeds.org/v2/prod.php?prodID=TM005

I've never seen them in stores, but maybe someone in growing them
commercially now.

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Louis Cohen
Living la vida loca at N37° 43' 7.9" W122° 8' 42.8"


"RMiller" > wrote in message
...
> I recently returned from California where I attended a wine and food
tasting.
> Everything was delicious and the wines were perfect.
>
> The big thing for me tho was a salad made of fresh corn , and tiny , tiny
> tomatoes.
> They were about the size of a pearl. I have never seen them before. They
were
> much smaller than the Grape Tomatoes.
>
> Has any one had these before ? Can you buy them in other places , or was
this
> just a local delicacy?
>
> Rosie

"Louis Cohen" > wrote in message >...
> Several years ago, I got some seeds of a mostly wild tomato variety from
> Native Seeds Search (www.nativeseeds.org). The fruit were the size of
> berries with a deep, strong tomato flavor. When I stopped planting
> tomatoes, they continued to volunteer for years. Our old dog, Jet, used to
> nibble the ripe ones right off the bush.
>
> I just checked their web site; they don't seem to have that variety any
> more. This looks like the closest thing in their current catalog:
> http://www.nativeseeds.org/v2/prod.php?prodID=TM005
>
> I've never seen them in stores, but maybe someone in growing them
> commercially now.
>
> --
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----
> Louis Cohen
> Living la vida loca at N37° 43' 7.9" W122° 8' 42.8"
>
>
> "RMiller" > wrote in message
> ...
> > I recently returned from California where I attended a wine and food
> tasting.
> > Everything was delicious and the wines were perfect.
> >
> > The big thing for me tho was a salad made of fresh corn , and tiny , tiny
> > tomatoes.
> > They were about the size of a pearl. I have never seen them before. They
> were
> > much smaller than the Grape Tomatoes.
> >
> > Has any one had these before ? Can you buy them in other places , or was
> this
> > just a local delicacy?
> >
> > Rosie
====================
I have a photo in a book (not a cookbook) but a book ABOUT food. They
call them "Currant Tomatoes" and they look to be about the size of
smallish blueberries - or (Duh) currants
Lynn from Fargo
(Tasted home grown grape tomatoes today just as sweet as store bought
but with twice the tomato flavor.)

RMiller wrote:
>
> I recently returned from California where I attended a wine and food tasting.
> Everything was delicious and the wines were perfect.
>
> The big thing for me tho was a salad made of fresh corn , and tiny , tiny
> tomatoes.
> They were about the size of a pearl. I have never seen them before. They were
> much smaller than the Grape Tomatoes.
>
> Has any one had these before ? Can you buy them in other places , or was this
> just a local delicacy?
>
> Rosie



I have a few tiny ones at the top of my Sweet 100 tomato
plants. They are cute but the skins are very tough and
make up too large a percentage of the fruit.

gloria p

In article >,
(RMiller) wrote:

> I recently returned from California where I attended a wine and food tasting.
> Everything was delicious and the wines were perfect.
>
> The big thing for me tho was a salad made of fresh corn , and tiny , tiny
> tomatoes.
> They were about the size of a pearl. I have never seen them before. They were
> much smaller than the Grape Tomatoes.
>
> Has any one had these before ? Can you buy them in other places , or was this
> just a local delicacy?


I live in California and you can find these in my back yard. I'm not sure
why (maybe lack of water?), but some of my cherry tomatoes are that size.
They started out as regular size cherry tomatoes, but now some are tiny
and some aren't.

--
Dan Abel
Sonoma State University
AIS