Women in bathing suits try different kinds of tomatoes in a beach cafe in Hayama on Saturday, August 17.
Kotaro Yamada
Cafe de Rope La Mer, a beachside cafe in Isshiki beach in Hayama, Kanagawa Prefecture, offered a variety of tomatoes and tomato-centric dishes for sea bathers in a tomato-tasting event held on Saturday, August 17.
People who are exhausted from swimming visited the cafe to enjoy tasting 11 kinds of red, yellow and green tomatoes to reenergize themselves.
The cafe also offered some 20 tomato-inspired menu items, including pickles, curry and rice, pasta and tomato juice.
The event was supported by an agricultural cooperative in Hayama (JA Yokosuka Hayama), which provided fresh summer vegetables, and Pioneer Ecoscience, a seed company in Tokyo which offered its tomato brand Mauro’s Tomato.
Nozomi Arai, 28, a resident of Tokyo who visited Hayama to swim, said she was refreshed by the flavor of tomatoes, adding that tomatoes taste especially good when she is worn out.
(Aug. 18, 2013)