I guess I always assumed that Sicily’s famous Pachino tomato, valued component of the Mediterranean diet, with its coveted EU-sanctioned protection, was grown exclusively by wizened, cantankerous old men bent rheumatically over the stony soil of parched ancestral smallholdings. Alas, thanks to my friend Amanda, who spent Ferragosto touring the area, apparently the southernmost point in Europe, and provided these photos, I now know better.
