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Featured Poems

Peeling Tomatoes (Email From My Mother)

 

Hi, I loved this survey! Anne and Buddy are the only ones who still peel all tomatoes. Anne said that Mamie always did but that neither of her girls do. Mary said it kinda depends on the tomatoes but she does for company. Malinda said she never peels tomatoes for herself but does on special occasions. Lulie said they do not peel tomatoes though Bobby always did. (She and Guy recommend Duke's mayo for the most homemade tasting that you can buy and I certainly intend to try it.) And I loved Frieda's reasoning best of all. We had discussed the fact that peeling probably takes out some of the nutrients, but she said she hates to lose any part of the tomato because of the cost. BTW, Helen and Mark have eaten supper with us the last two nights and I peeled tomatoes both times but today I had one for lunch that was not peeled and it was just as good.

 

Love you all, Mama

 

PS Didn't hear from Ed but assume Eleanor peels or does not peel his tomatoes.

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Praise for The Sweetest & the Meanest...

"Tom Kimmel is a treasure. Songman, rocker, poet, seeker, troubadour... always scratching away for the greater truths like a miner for gold. In these poems, you will recognize and celebrate your own humanity " warts and all" and know it's okay to be a human being. Yeah!"

- Marshall Chapman


"Tom does with poems what Eudora Welty did with short stories . . . sweet (but unsentimental), understated little slices of actual human life as experienced here in the south, or anywhere, for that matter. He puts you so close to those beauty/truth/goodness moments of the heart (the ones we've all known but defy description), that you're suddenly in them before you realize it.Like Eudora, he speaks softly, sneaks up on you -- and then nails you. Wonderful stuff."

- Pierce Pettis


"Denise cried when she read MaMa's Table. I said, My goodness honey, it ain't that good, is it?"

- Mark Germino