Rude Tomato

28 Slightly Rude Notes On Writing

Adam Mastroianni | Experimental History | 29th April 2025

Less a list than a begrudging appreciation of the never-ending grind that is trying to produce good creative work. "Some people think that writing is merely the process of picking the right words and putting them in the right order, like stringing beads onto a necklace. But the power of those words, if there is any, doesn’t live inside the words themselves...The beauty ain’t in the necklace. It’s in the neck" (3,300 words)

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An 80,000-Year History Of The Tomato

Evan DeTurk | Works In Progress | 7th May 2025

80,000 years ago, a tomato was a blueberry-sized fruit that grew only in Central and South America. Being small they were time-consuming to pick and some variants were toxic to humans, so Native Americans began breeding for a better plant. The cherry tomato was an intermediate product of this process. The first tomato suitable for commercial growing appeared only in 1870 (1,500 words)