Okra with Fresh Tomatoes

Until I moved to the South and discovered fried okra, my only experience with this vegetable was at my grandmother Nonna Giulia’s, where we would go for dinner every Friday for a Shabbat meal. I remember hoping to get some of the smaller bamya, as she called it, from the top layer where the browned, yummiest ones were. In fact, my grandfather would usually complain that they were not browned enough. Now that I live in Florida and see okra often at the market, I decid