Oven-Cooked Tomatoes

Like the Oven-Dried Pears, this technique concentrates the flavors and sugars of tomatoes by getting rid of a lot of that irrigation water. They will never be as good as the tomatoes grown outside of Naples in its volcanic soils, when the whole tomato plant, full of ripe tomatoes, is pulled up and hung upside-down on a south-facing wall for a few days—but they are close.