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No mushy tomato for me.

At Tomato Casual, Vanessa Richins recently offered some answers to a reader’s question: What makes a tomato mushy?

The variety of tomato.
The environment the tomato was grown in.
Storing picked tomatoes in the fridge.

I was initially surprised by that last one.  Anyone who’s seen tomatoes swell and ripen quickly over a period of one or two [...]