Experiment with heirloom tomatoes yellow, green or red if you can find them.

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We started with a salad of heirloom tomatoes laced with burrata prior to enjoying a tender filet mignon with porcini mushrooms.

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The dish is prepared with two poached eggs and housemade porchetta with heirloom tomatoes resting on an English muffin and covered with hollandaise.

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Following on the heels of heirloom tomatoes and heritage pork, old-world grains have begun to pop up on menus at hip, ingredient-driven restaurants, too.

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We take a tour with him through the kitchen to see the produce, the salmon they smoke at the restaurant and the heirloom tomatoes.

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In a display of trend-consciousness, each night focused on an ingredient in season locally: Menus were built around watermelon, heirloom tomatoes, lobster and sweet corn.

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Whether you're looking for heirloom tomatoes or deer-resistant daffodils, most mail-order nurseries have moved their inventories online, supplementing their catalogs with more choices, information and links.

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You've had the heirloom tomatoes and artisanal, grass-fed steaks, the small-production wine so perfectly translated from the soil you can almost taste the olive trees growing beside the vine rows.

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At ZED451 in downtown Chicago chef Patrick Quakenbush prepares a braised octopus salad paired with more familiar ingredients including frisee, kalamata olives, heirloom tomatoes, fresh oregano, cucumbers and a lemon vin.

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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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Fill up on organic blueberries and heirloom tomatoes at the Union Square Greenmarket, then wander past the students and chess-players in Washington Square Park to linger over cappuccino in an old-fashioned Italian pavement cafe on Bleecker Street, or cool off Middle-Eastern style with hummus, mint-studded lemonade and chilled salads at Hummus Place (88 MacDougall St).

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