Good Day, Thomas Jefferson Hour podcast listeners.

And what a day?

The tomato.

No, no, we're going to get, you know, there's some of those.

Enough with the gardening already, but...

Oh, this is a very interesting we got a great letter from

Allison who we talked about Allison's mother on the show and dog walking and

how Jefferson wanted dogs destroyed at Montecello.

And then she wrote us back with a couple of questions.

And one was her recollections of these great tomatoes when she was a child and she's never been able to find them again and

does this tomato of her dreams exist? So...

And apparently yes and no is the answer to that question. So we had a great time.

We talked to three different people this week.

Harry Clee of the University of Florida, he's a chemist trying to restore the taste of the commercial.

He's been working on it for decades. For 23 years. the the Johnny Apple King. He wrote a book called Epic Tomatoes how to grow and select the best varieties of all time.

It's a great it's a colorful book. No I got this from my sister Joanne and then you got me a copy.

I immediately got you a copy and it's like...

And then third Pat Bradowski.

It kind of has a gaudy, gaudy cover, don't let that fool you.

Well it's meant to grab your attention.

And it does.

It's got sections on how to start from seeing,

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