Belle Meade Frozen Tomato

Created at the exclusive Belle Meade Country Club in Nashville, this has to be the most exotic Southern salad in the history of the Confederacy—and one of the most mysteriously delicious. I first tasted the salad a few years ago when my mother and I were entertained at the club, but it was not till Julia Reed, my food-obsessed Mississippian friend and fellow author, persuaded an intrepid pal of hers to march into the clubhouse kitchen and ask the chef himself for the sacred recipe, that any