Focus on Flavor: Slow Food Asheville’s Heritage Food Project

Careful: Plant Cherokee Purple tomatoes, and you may never go back to growing a, well, garden-variety again. At least that’s the hope of the team at Slow Food Asheville, which recently announced the Cherokee Purple as the focus of the 2017 Heritage Food Project. They see it as a “gateway tomato” to the countless heirloom varieties out there — cultivars, they stress, that are easy to grow and taste better than what’s on offer at the grocery store, yet are in danger of being lost. Read more…

Mountain Xpress
April 2017
Written by Maggie Cramer