Whether it's unusual heirloom tomatoes, such as Aunt Ruby's German Green or Yellow Pear, or purple-leaved Black Pearl peppers, which were introduced by the U.S. National Arboretum in 2006, interesting-looking vegetable varieties are more widely available.

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This dish comes to us from Juanita Weisbrich: It's a side dish including peppers, onion and black-eyed peas, things from her garden.

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Strands of black tagliatelle were flecked with succulent peekytoe crab and sweet cubanella peppers.

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