Learn the Taste of Black (Purple) Heirloom tomatoes

Video Transcript

"Now, we'll look at some of the black tomatoes. Obviously they are not truly black, they, the hotter it is the darker color they get. This is a Black from Tula, this is a Cherokee Purple, there's a Purple Calabash, they're all in what I call, the Black family. They are very rich tasting, deep, old tomato flavor, beautiful brick red interior, a little bit of green gel. We use the Tula, we put it on our hamburgers for what we call a Tula Burger, outstanding. Nothing tastes like summer like the Tula Burger. There's a Cherokee Purple, red veins, green marbling, these have a nice salty flavor. And, Purple Calabash, there's one slight disadvantage to some of these is that they are incredibly mis-shapen. But, if you're just going to chunk them up into a sauce, or slice them into a salad, they clean up pretty well. You'll find that all the tomatoes in the Black family have a very rich, deep, deep, tomato flavor, very, if you love tomatoes, try one of these, cause they're delicious. A little harder to deal with perhaps, but once you taste them you'll see that they're worth it."