Roast Tomatoes on Toast

Tomatoes are one of the truly great ingredients to use as a chef. The balance between sweet and acidic is superb. Although they are really a fruit, most cooks use them like a vegetable. Tomatoes are one of a number of marvellous gifts introduced to European cooking from the Americas. I could never imagine Italian cooking without them, but they didn’t arrive there until the sixteenth century and did not really become a table item until the seventeenth century. Back then, many thought them po