{"id":1400,"date":"2009-07-25T11:04:41","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T16:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1400"},"modified":"2009-07-25T11:04:41","modified_gmt":"2009-07-25T16:04:41","slug":"honoring-the-tomato-sandwich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1400","title":{"rendered":"Honoring the tomato sandwich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ss-tomato-sandwich-2.JPG' title='ss-tomato-sandwich-2.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ss-tomato-sandwich-2.JPG' alt='ss-tomato-sandwich-2.JPG' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Few things make better eatin&#8217; than a tomato sandwich. And you only get them a couple of months a year, when tomatoes are in high season. Last summer, after 17 years in California, I was so starved for a tomato sandwich that I went out and bought some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bunnybread.net\/Products\/Products.html\">Bunny bread<\/a>, which, in my opinion, is the best of the country-style white breads available around here.<\/p>\n<p>This year, though, I&#8217;ve focused on lower carb alternatives to white-bread tomato sandwiches. <a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1373\">Chapati bread<\/a>, which I wrote about last week, serves very well. Just smear mayonnaise on a piece of the chapati bread and have some tomato, with a fork.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ss-tomato-sandwich-1.JPG' title='ss-tomato-sandwich-1.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ss-tomato-sandwich-1.JPG' alt='ss-tomato-sandwich-1.JPG' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the things I&#8217;ve taken for granted since childhood is that, in July and August, there should be a row of tomatoes in the window above the kitchen sink, ripening in the sun. Does everyone do this? Or is it just something that ran in my family?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few things make better eatin&#8217; than a tomato sandwich. And you only get them a couple of months a year, when tomatoes are in high season. Last summer, after 17 years in California, I was so starved for a tomato sandwich that I went out and bought some Bunny bread, which, in my opinion, is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1400\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Honoring the tomato sandwich&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-sustainable-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}