Being in England right now, I can only dream about French tomatoes. I’ve tried buying them from all the usual shops here and despair at these usually imported, over-refrigerated, thick-skinned, tasteless offerings. Unfortunately our local farm shop fell victim to economic forces, so that’s that.
No wonder that, when I was in Aix in April, I made an immediate beeline for La Jardiniere in rue d’Italie, filled one of their brown paper bags with red, yellow, black, green, striped, mis-shapen tomatoes and had days of stonkingly wonderful tomato salads.
Bravo to Fuveau then for celebrating this humble ingredient with their very first Nuit de la Tomate, which starts at 18:00 this evening.
There are veg stalls, a gaspacho-making competition, local restaurants open, free design and colouring tent for children, and similar for adults – two Fuveau-based artists encouraging participants to work with ‘unusual utensils.’
If you are going along, you are encouraged to wear red!
Sounds like lots of fun as these village festivals are. Details on the poster below…
aixcentric 
Love this post. Miss seeing you. When are you visiting next. Never heard o “stunningly”. Great word
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Hi, it does sound a fun event, especially from England where we are surrounded by rubbish tomatoes! Despite this, We are staying put this autumn as we are moving house! XL..