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Good Eats: Tomato Envy
Is it a vegetable? Or is it a fruit? It depends on whom and when you ask, but one thing most folks can agree on is that the tomato is Good Eats. Alton demonstrates why the delicious berry has so many fans, sharing recipes for Stuffed Tomatoes, Tomato Sauce, and TBL Panzanella along with tidbits on selection, storage, and preparation.
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Episode Info
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Episode number: 6x6 Production Number: EA1F06 Airdate: Wednesday October 02nd, 2002 Writer: Alton Brown
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Recap
Mr. McGregor tends his tomatoes, talking softly to them and hoping this year he’ll win a prize, when a birdcall breaks into his reverie. Behind a tree we see a large metal horn. McGregor believes this might be the call of the “soft-bellied tomato pecker.” But they live only in the Andes. The call comes again and McGregor goes in search of his bird call CD.....Read the full recap
Episode Notes
Cards
- In 1893 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the tomato a vegetable, subject to vegetable import tariffs.
- Believing it to be an aphrodisiac, the French called the tomato pomme d’amour or “love apple.”
- Asian cultures use tomatoes to treat ailments from asthma to cancer.
- In the 1830’s tomato ketchup became known as America’s national condiment.
- The tomato was first brought to Europe from the New World by Christopher Columbus
The end credits feature a brief blooper in which Alton, as a Federal agent, looks into a Viewmaster toy while another agent tosses a tomato. The actor drops the tomato, forcing a reshoot.
Episode Quotes
Alton: Why the, uh, mater-mania? Oh, I dunno… maybe it’s because they’re packed with nutrition: antioxidants, lycopene, Vitamin A and C. Maybe it’s because they work and play so well with other ingredients. Or maybe it’s because they’re just plain old… (whispers to avoid irate McGregor)… Good Eats!
Alton: Although the tomato is our only stuffable berry, most cooks pass on this application because the tomato in question usually emerges from the oven with the consistency of a rain-soaked piñata.
W: (scrubbing away at Alton’s reflection in a pot lid) Can’t get that ugly scum off this lid!
Alton: Ha, ha, ha. W, I’m looking for something even more cutting than your wit: a serrated knife.
Alton: Ha, ha, ha. W, I’m looking for something even more cutting than your wit: a serrated knife.
W: Today we’re offering a free gift.
(W hands Alton a large bandage)
Alton: Awww, a free gift… a bandage… you know, why don’t you just keep that in case you rub up against your own personality.
(W hands Alton a large bandage)
Alton: Awww, a free gift… a bandage… you know, why don’t you just keep that in case you rub up against your own personality.
Cultural References
When Alton suggests that the way to cut the rubbery tomato skin might be the same way one cuts a rubbery wet suit, a jawful of nasty teeth appears and an ominous theme can be heard. Both come from the film that made vacationers fear the water, 1975’s Jaws.
McGregor tells Alton that when he finds the “soft bellied tomato pecker” he’s going to “get medieval” on it. This line was popularized by 1994’s Pulp Fiction, when character Marsellus Wallace used it to predict the fate of some individuals who had misused him terribly and thereby (to him) earned the kind of end that makes strong men shudder.
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