For food lovers, summer brings a bounty of luscious fruits and vegetables: peaches, plums, zucchini, okra, watermelons … the list goes on. But perhaps no hot-weather fruit is more beloved than the tomato (and yes, it is indeed a fruit—though it is generally considered a vegetable for culinary and statistical purposes).

Ripe, juicy tomatoes, with their rainbow colors and sometimes bizarre, bulbous shapes, steal the show at the summer farmers market. And as the season wanes, tomato fans are in a mad rush to enjoy these savory-sweet beauties before they’re gone (because every tomato lover knows out-of-season tomatoes are a pale comparison to their summer cousins).

But the tomato hasn’t always been a crowd pleaser. Many (though certainly not