{"id":7670,"date":"2017-08-19T22:06:07","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T05:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marialiberati.com\/?p=7670"},"modified":"2017-08-19T22:06:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T05:06:07","slug":"tomato-poetry-tomatoes-of-summer-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marialiberati.com\/freshsite\/2017\/08\/19\/tomato-poetry-tomatoes-of-summer-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to the Tomato: a Bountiful Harvest of Summer 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Copyright 2017 Art of Living, Prima Media,Inc\/Maria Liberati
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\nBesides the lazy, hazy feeling summer brings, my favorite memories of Summer are the fresh tomatoes that Mother Nature brings to the season..they add so much flavor and color… But now, alas,as Summer is winding down, so will the fresh tomatoes.. Food is poetry for the body , and poetry is food for the soul.
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\nMy Ode to the fresh tomatoes of Summer was inspired by  the luscious fresh tomatoes that appear every summer. Tomatoes are sheer poetry at your table:
\nOde to the Fresh Tomatoes of Summer
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\nHow do I love thee
\nLet me count the ways
\nI love thee to the depth and breadth of my palate
\nA perfect creation from the brain to the palate from the palate to the fingers end
\nI love thee from every nook and cranny of my \u2018cucina\u2019 that you infuse with your perfume
\nYour fragrance is so heavenly it brings a passion to my day
\nI love thee for your red beauty when ripe..a color, so vivid it needs no light to bring light to my day
\nI love thee for a juice so sweet..every drop dances on my tongue and in my mouth
\nMy stomach, practically begs, in anticipation, for my mouth to release this nectar so that it too can have the pleasure…. of your elixir
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\nHere\u2019s more and recipes from the beach house http:\/\/www.themortonreport.com\/home-away\/food\/fresh-peppers-with-beer-and-frittata-or-lunch-at-a-beach-house-in-italy<\/a>
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\nMy favorite tomato poetry is this one by Pablo Neruda<\/p>\n

Ode To Tomatoes by Pablo Neruda<\/div>\n
The street
\nfilled with tomatoes,
\nmidday,
\nsummer,
\nlight is
\nhalved
\nlike
\na
\ntomato,
\nits juice
\nruns
\nthrough the streets.
\nIn December,
\nunabated,
\nthe tomato
\ninvades
\nthe kitchen,
\nit enters at lunchtime,
\ntakes
\nits ease
\non countertops,
\namong glasses,
\nbutter dishes,
\nblue saltcellars.
\nIt sheds
\nits own light,
\nbenign majesty.
\nUnfortunately, we must
\nmurder it:
\nthe knife
\nsinks
\ninto living flesh,
\nred
\nviscera
\na cool
\nsun,
\nprofound,
\ninexhaustible,
\npopulates the salads
\nof Chile,
\nhappily, it is wed
\nto the clear onion,
\nand to celebrate the union
\nwe
\npour
\noil,
\nessential
\nchild of the olive,
\nonto its halved hemispheres,
\npepper
\nadds
\nits fragrance,
\nsalt, its magnetism;
\nit is the wedding
\nof the day,
\nparsley
\nhoists
\nits flag,
\npotatoes
\nbubble vigorously,
\nthe aroma
\nof the roast
\nknocks
\nat the door,
\nit’s time!
\ncome on!
\nand, on
\nthe table, at the midpoint
\nof summer,
\nthe tomato,
\nstar of earth, recurrent
\nand fertile
\nstar,
\ndisplays
\nits convolutions,
\nits canals,
\nits remarkable amplitude
\nand abundance,
\nno pit,
\nno husk,
\nno leaves or thorns,
\nthe tomato offers
\nits gift
\nof fiery color
\nand cool completeness.<\/div>\n
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For more recipes get your copy of the award winning book series The Basic Art of Italian Cooking: Holidays and Special Occasions-2nd edition<\/div>\n
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SPECIAL EVENTS:See you at<\/div>\n
October 12th-Quakertown Foodie Event- Quakertown Pa<\/div>\n
October 13-15th-Philly Food and Wine Show at Valley Forge Casino in Valley Forge Pa<\/div>\n
Nov 18th-19th-Lancaster Food  and Wine Show, Lancaster,Pa<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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