As cooks, we have not done right by the tomato.

Reviewing restaurants for 17 years taught me a lot about cooking—including how to make good Corned Beef Hash.

Before the year 1600, no recipes existed—anywhere—for these: spaghetti with tomato sauce, Caprese salad, red gazpacho, tabbouleh, Israeli salad, chicken tikka masala, fried green tomatoes, cream of tomato soup, ketchup, pico de gallo, chicken paprikash or, alas, the tomato sandwich. . . .