LITTLE ROCK, Ark – A cake with heirloom tomato icing? Don't laugh.
The dessert with a hint of zing was the highlight of an all-tomato feast on Friday in Monticello in southeastern Arkansas to promote heirloom tomatoes.
Guests enjoyed a buffet dinner of stuffed tomatoes, tomato flatbread, five-tomato salad, basil chicken and several tomato-based sides topped off with tomato cake.
The all-tomato dinner grew out of consumer yearning for home-grown tomatoes rather than the hard, grainy and tasteless offerings at many grocery stores, organizers said.
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