It comes with an opulent Madeira sauce that enfolds nicoise olives and organic tomatoes like a silken cloak.

An organic tomato must flourish without conventional pesticides; an organic chicken cannot be fed antibiotics.

The explosive growth in the commercial cultivation of organic tomatoes here, for example, is putting stress on the water table.

Five years ago Muir Glen of Sacramento, Calif., started canning organic tomatoes.

Maybe you make your own pizza with soy cheese and organic tomatoes.

This is a town that cultivates eccentricity like a rare organic tomato.

Next came organic tomatoes that had been roasted until soft, covering a tiny lettuce-leaf salad, looking like half a tomato globe.

And serious eaters can rattle off the difference between an organic tomato and a "transition organic" one.

But with an endless stream of demanding guests ("What, no organic tomatoes?")

His platter of homemade mozzarella glistens with organic tomatoes, roasted peppers, artichoke hearts and capers.