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Its all well and good to tout organic, fresh la ti da, but what's wrong with advocating baby steps? You can't expect someone in the inner city to suddenly embrace organic slow cooking after years of tasty calorically dense fast food. Conventionally grown produce won't kill you.
Instead of the elitist notion that we all have to turn into Alice Waters' devoted followers, why not accept that while grocery tomatoes are not the tastiest, they do have some nutritive value?
I grew up on iceberg lettuce and hothouse tomato salads, mac n' cheese, tuna casserole and franks n' beans, and I managed to grow pretty tall and not too wide.
