When eating organic heirloom tomates from Farmer Al’s Truck Patch, there’s only one appropriate way to do it — au naturel.

The red brandywines are still the best tomato ever.

We’re putting on a feed — peppered ham, squash casserole (mostly yellow squash and onion with cheese, butter and flour), cole slaw, yeast rolls and a peach and blackberry cobbler. Aesthetically, the cobblers aren’t much, but that wasn’t the point. The point was using two quarts of Arkansa peaches and two quarts of Arkansas blackberries.

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