I HAVE COME TO REALIZE THAT JAPAN IS NOT ITALY

I just tried sun drying some of my now red Oroma tomatoes and got one day of definitely not Italian sun, followed by a day of torrents of rain and next day a little even less Italian sun, so now with 4 days of rain looming (surprise!) over my incipiently moldy tomatoes, I'm going for oven drying; it's too humid here in non-Italy, the sky simply lacks that Tuscan sun, that golden thing whose NY version I used to see in the sky a lot when I was a kid. And if you too aren't in Italy (there are so many who aren't), here's a great source of info on oven-drying those heirloom tomatoes whose deliciousness you might want to enjoy mid-winter, without canning or Italy.

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