NEW DATE! Sunday, August 30, 2015 - 1 pm - 5 pm
Location: Hoboken Historical Museum, 1301 Hudson St., (201) 656-2240
Love tomatoes? Mark your calendar for the Museum’s 13th Annual Heirloom Tomato-Tasting Festival on Sunday, Aug. 30, from 1 – 5 p.m. in the breezeway outside the Museum’s entrance. New Jersey farmers Rich and Sue Sisti of Catalpa Ridge Farm in rural Wantage Township will be back with over a dozen varieties of heirloom tomatoes, freshly picked and ready for sampling. The event, as always, is free.
Heirlooms are varieties that gardeners have saved by passing down seeds from one generation to the next. They’re usually the most flavorful varieties and oft en come in unusual colors and shapes — they hardly resemble the typical round, red tomato sitting in a plastic tray in the supermarket. The colors range from white to yellow to purple, and sometimes even red. Favorites over the years have included the tart “Aunt Ruby’s German Green,” the fl avorful “Brandywine Pink,” and the ever-popular “Radiator Charlie’s Mortgage Lift er.” New varieties are grown every year, so if you were at the tasting in years past, you’ll find new tomatoes for sampling this year.
The Museum provides slices of authentic Hoboken coal-fired-oven bread to hold all those delicious juices, or to dip into salsas, dips, and pestos made from Catalpa Ridge Farm's produce by LaStrada Gourmet Deli. The Sistis also bring a selection of farm-fresh produce including garlic, herbs, peppers, onions, eggplant, summer squash and more, available for purchase.
