Juicy watermelon, deep-purple plums and ripe roma tomatoes are some of the vibrant fruit and veg highlights this month, says Graham Gee, senior buyer at the Happy Apple in Melbourne.
“Tomatoes are plentiful, in particular the saucing varieties,” he says. “Roma varieties are sold nice and ripe, ready to make passata.” Cooking tomatoes are roughly $2 a kilo at the Happy Apple, with Australian field tomatoes going for about $5 a kilo in supermarkets.
View image in fullscreen Rukmini Iyer’s watermelon and tomato gazpacho with rosemary croutons. Photograph: Issy Croker/The Guardian. Food and prop styling: Emily Ezekiel. Food styling assistant: Sophie Crowther.
Watermelon is “very cheap”, says Michael Hsu, operational manager at Sydney’s Panetta Mercato.
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