Perfect Summer Tomato Soup with Tarragon Sauce

This is the soup for the perfect tomato. It is best served from the height of summer to the end of September, when the best tomatoes are in season. If you can find them, try it with yellow tomatoes; or, if you want something more elaborate, make both a yellow and a red version and ladle them out next to each other in the bowl.

The tarragon sauce is wonderful but certainly not essential, so don’t give up on the soup if you don’t want to deal with it or can’t find the herbs.

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