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{"id":15122,"date":"2018-08-30T11:00:52","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T15:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/?p=15122"},"modified":"2024-08-21T17:37:42","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T21:37:42","slug":"the-tomatoes-of-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2018\/08\/30\/the-tomatoes-of-august\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tomatoes of August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Susan L. Speaker ~<\/em><\/p>\n<p>August, as every gardener knows, is tomato time. Suddenly all the plants are full of ripe fruit (yes, tomatoes are technically fruit) and we are eating them every day, giving them to friends, canning them, or making sauce or soup. My husband Bob and I grow several varieties in our garden, but my favorites are the fat, orange Swan pomodoros, which have a marvelous flavor that holds up well in any recipe. They are also special to me because of their provenance: my first pomodoro seeds came to me through a friendship that developed in my work on the NLM <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.nlm.nih.gov\/\">Profiles in Science<\/a> project.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15123\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15123\" style=\"width: 234px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/swans-with-garden-basket.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15123\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2018\/08\/30\/the-tomatoes-of-august\/swans-with-garden-basket\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/swans-with-garden-basket.jpg?fit=936%2C1200&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"936,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"Henry and Geri Swan with garden basket\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"<p>Henry and Geri Swan with garden basket<\/p>\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/swans-with-garden-basket.jpg?fit=234%2C300&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/swans-with-garden-basket.jpg?fit=799%2C1024&ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15123\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/swans-with-garden-basket.jpg?resize=234%2C300&ssl=1\" alt=\"A man and woman stand outdoors, she holds a basket of produce and he holds a shovel.\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15123\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Geri and Henry Swan in the Garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 2004 the Profiles in Science team was putting together a <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.nlm.nih.gov\/spotlight\/rr\">site featuring the papers of Dr. Florence Sabin (1871\u20131953)<\/a>, a pioneering medical researcher. We needed permission to reproduce some of her letters, and wrote to Dr. Henry Swan, who served as her executor. Alas, Dr. Swan had passed away, but his wife, Geri, was able to supply the needed permission. She also suggested that we consider doing a Profile about Dr. Swan, who did some of the first open-heart surgeries during the 1950s, using hypothermia. It was a fascinating story, and we subsequently acquired <a href=\"https:\/\/findingaids.nlm.nih.gov\/repositories\/4\/resources\/881\">Dr. Swan\u2019s papers<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.nlm.nih.gov\/spotlight\/hp\">produced a Profiles site<\/a>.\u00a0 In the process, I had many conversations with Geri, and visited her in Denver several times. She was able to provide a much fuller picture of Henry Swan\u2019s life.\u00a0 It turned out that he wasn\u2019t just a pioneering cardiac surgeon but a talented artist, cook, and gardener as well. Geri had been a science teacher and a medical researcher before their marriage, and also painted. Together, the Swans developed several new varieties of plants over the years, including the Swan pomadoro tomato and a white acorn squash.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/20180825_swan-tomato.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15124\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2018\/08\/30\/the-tomatoes-of-august\/20180825_swan-tomato\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/20180825_swan-tomato.jpg?fit=675%2C1200&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"675,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"1.9","credit":"","camera":"SM-G925V","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1535189355","copyright":"","focal_length":"4.3","iso":"40","shutter_speed":"0.0011904761904762","title":"","orientation":"1","latitude":"39.040555555556","longitude":"-77.035833333333"}\" data-image-title=\"20180825_swan-tomato\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/20180825_swan-tomato.jpg?fit=169%2C300&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/20180825_swan-tomato.jpg?fit=576%2C1024&ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-15124\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/20180825_swan-tomato.jpg?resize=169%2C300&ssl=1\" alt=\"A basket of yellow tomatoes.\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Geri and I have kept in touch. When Bob and I started our first garden in 2008, she gave me helpful advice; several years later she sent us some seeds to try out. We\u2019ve been growing the wonderful tomatoes every summer since. Many of them end up as tomato soup, which freezes well and gives us a welcome taste of summer in the winter months. And in August, they remind me again of all the interesting people I\u2019ve connected with in my work at NLM.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Bob\u2019s Fresh Tomato Soup<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lots of tomatoes \u2013 enough to fill a 4-qt pot when quartered<br \/>\n1 cup diced onion<br \/>\n1 cup diced celery<br \/>\n1 cup diced carrots<br \/>\n1 cup chicken stock<br \/>\n2 cloves garlic (or more, to taste)<br \/>\n1-2 T oil or butter<br \/>\n1-2 T sugar<br \/>\n1 bay leaf<br \/>\nSalt & pepper to taste<br \/>\n1-2 C egg noodles (optional)<\/p>\n<p>In a 4-6 quart pot, saut\u00e9 onions, celery, carrots and garlic in the oil\/butter. Rinse tomatoes, remove the stem ends, quarter, and add to pot.\u00a0 Add bay leaf.\u00a0 Simmer for 30-45 minutes.\u00a0 Remove bay leaf!\u00a0 Puree in the pot with a hand blender, or in a food processor.\u00a0 Press through a fine sieve into a second pot to remove seeds and skins.* Add chicken stock (more or less as needed to achieve soup-like consistency).\u00a0 Add sugar and salt as needed.\u00a0 (Note: yellow tomatoes will need very little sugar, if any.)\u00a0 Add a cup or two of medium egg noodles if you like. (You can cook them in the soup or cook them separately. If you plan to freeze the soup, don\u2019t add noodles, as they\u2019ll get mushy.)<\/p>\n<p>Preparation time: about 1 hour; Cooking time: 1 hour.\u00a0 Cleaning the sieve, extra 45 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><em> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/susan-swan-tomatos.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15126\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2018\/08\/30\/the-tomatoes-of-august\/susan-swan-tomatos\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/susan-swan-tomatos.jpg?fit=1366%2C1200&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1366,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"Susan-swan-tomatos\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/susan-swan-tomatos.jpg?fit=300%2C264&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/susan-swan-tomatos.jpg?fit=840%2C738&ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-15126\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/susan-swan-tomatos.jpg?resize=840%2C738&ssl=1\" alt=\"A colander of yellow tomatos.\" width=\"840\" height=\"738\" \/><\/a><\/em>*A note about sieves and so on:\u00a0 You actually need two large pots.\u00a0 After cooking, the soup gets strained into the second pot to finish.\u00a0 You do need to strain out the seeds and skins or they make the soup bitter. We use a common rounded wire mesh strainer, and a soup ladle (in a continuous circular motion) to do this. (A better tool is a Chinois or \u2018China Cap\u2019 strainer.\u00a0 This is a sort of conical strainer with a conical pestle which is ideal for sauces and soups. But these are expensive and not easy to find.)<\/p>\n<p><em>Tomato soup lovers will find <a href=\"https:\/\/medlineplus.gov\/recipe\/zestytomatosoup.html\">another fine recipe<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/medlineplus.gov\/\">MedlinePlus<\/a>\u2014the NIH\u2019s website for patients and their families and friends, produced by NLM\u2014as well as a link there to many more heart-healthy recipes from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the NIH.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Susan Speaker, PhD, is Historian for the Digital Manuscripts Program of the History of Medicine Division at the National Library of Medicine.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/findingaids.nlm.nih.gov\/repositories\/4\/resources\/881\">Dr. Henry Swan<\/a> was a pioneering cardiac surgeon and a talented artist, cook, and gardener as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19605840,"featured_media":15125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42333869,12763],"tags":[586,1833,4040,5535849,2832],"class_list":["post-15122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives-manuscripts","category-collections","tag-food","tag-gardening","tag-heart","tag-profiles-in-science","tag-recipes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/20180825-swan_feature.jpg?fit=900%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3xcDk-3VU","jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19605840"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15122"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29841,"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15122\/revisions\/29841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |