Here’s the truth: Canned tomatoes are picked at peak ripeness, while most fresh ones are plucked green, shipped across the ...

This summer, I boarded a plane for Naples to learn all about one of Italy’s most famous products: the DOP San Marzano tomato. Even though I have been cooking with what are arguably the most famous ...

You say to-may-to, he says to-mah-to. I say San Marzano. San Marzano tomatoes are, not to put too fine a point on it, simply the best sauce tomatoes in the world. Better than any other canned tomato.

Years ago, when I first visited the city of Pompeii, famously preserved in volcanic ash in 79 B.C. by the eruption of nearby Mount Vesuvius, I could not help but be impressed by two things: the ...