Co-owner of City Saucery Michael Marino is surrounded by his ugly tomato sauce, an unexpected name ... More perhaps, which at farmer’s markets and restaurants. Brooklyn, N.Y.-based City Saucery ...

The Ugly is not good looking; it's a big pinkish tomato with heavy lobes and looks like some in your grandparents' backyard, but it's got real taste, higher in sugar and higher in acid, like that ...

They worry that the ugly ripes will give Florida tomatoes a bad name. "The first contact you make with any product is visual," says Reggie Brown of the Florida Tomato Committee.

Take, for example, tomatoes with dark brown or black sunken leathery spots at the bottom or blossom end of the fruit. Pretty ugly! This is blossom end rot, caused by calcium deficiencies related to ...

Not all peak summer tomatoes are beauty queens, which is where this 5-minute Bloody Mary mix comes in.

John Lechleidner, chef de cuisine at WP24 by Wolfgang Puck uses misshapen cucumbers to make cucumber consommé and unsightly tomatoes to create tomato sorbet.

The UglyRipe tomato is tasty -- but the Florida Tomato Committee says it may be too ugly to sell.

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But Florida has tomato “ appearance standards ” (no voting standards it seems but tomatoes are covered) and the UglyRipe was, well not pretty. Bottom line: for the past three years the state ...