Mr. Johnson had just weathered his first Tomato Battle, a traveling food fight that started last year in five cities and is being held in eight this year.

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Every summer, when he smells the first sweet tomato from his yard, he remembers a story from several years ago, involving tomatoes, basil, olive oil, champagne and a light bulb.

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Its use in Britain is growing steadily, but its introduction into British tomato growing glasshouses is a first for both the growers and the practitioners.

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If the first product on the market had been a nutritionally enhanced rice rather than a high-tech tomato, consumer response might now be very different.

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Due next year: the first line of stain-resistant food containers, which eliminate that evil reddish tinge caused by the acids in tomato sauce.

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And but for the cherry tomatoes, I've - first one I tried this year is I can't really speak for the fruit, but the husky tomato definitely is a very hardy, usually really good for the at least for the upside town tomatoes with just smaller ones that it definitely seems to be a pretty hardy one.

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