Ask anyone who enjoys gardening, and he or she will tell you there is nothing better than that elusive, perfect vine-ripened fruit or vegetable. If you love tomatoes, like I do, finding that perfect orangey-red fruit on the vine at its peak of ripeness and freshness, blemish free, still warm from the sun, is like finding the holy grail of summertime eating splendor. However, it never fails that in any harvest, everything ripens at the same time. Every year, you end up getting more fruit and vegetables than you can eat. So you put the spares on the counter, ready to eat in the near future. But you get busy or go out of town, and these perfect specimens sit longer than you planned. Then one day you walk into the kitchen, and you are overwhelmed by a rancid stench that you can’t quite place as you are swarmed by hundreds of fruit flies. You see that those once picture-perfect fruits are now spotted, swollen, bruised and leaking the foulest smelling fluid you have ever had…
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