Les tomates confites de marmande

There can be few more popular fruits than the tomato (which is not classified technically as a vegetable). They are on sale everywhere the whole year round, coming from all over the world and all sorts of artificial environments. In the south of France, real, garden-grown tomatoes are not available until the middle of July. Anything you may find before then may look like a tomato, but is full of core, little flesh, and no flavour.

Varieties come and go according to fashion. Recently