Botanically they are classed as succulent fruits or berries, containing a large number of seeds, but we buy them as vegetables, with savoury overtones – although they taste fantastic with sugar!
Some History
Their ancestral home is the west coast of South America, where cherry tomatoes still grow wild. The Aztecs cultivated them along with chilli peppers and they travelled together to Europe arriving in Seville early in the 16th century. Culinary acceptance was slow due to their association with other more dubious members of the Solanaceae family – including Atropa belladonna …