We don't just like tomatoes: we love 'em. Provided, of course, that they're vine ripe and red. Or, if they're green, sliced thick, rolled in cornmeal batter and fried crisp.
Those perfect tomatoes are hard to come by, but they should be in abundance this weekend at the Ruskin Tomato and Heritage Festival. Check out the farmer's market, the plant and garden show, the Miss Ruskin Tomato Queen Pageant (9 a.m. to noon Saturday), the tomato cookoff (Sunday) and the entertainment. The festival is from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday in E.G. Simmons Park, on Tampa Bay in southwest Hillsborough County. Admission is $3 for those 6 and older.
And don't miss the free samples of sliced tomatoes.
