Nothing says summer like the $10 tomato
The IndependentGoing to the Hamptons and complaining about the cost of things is a little like going to Dubai and moaning about the heat. I did a rapid assessment of what was in my basket and approached the till with fear in my heart, ‘Were those tomatoes really nearly £100?’ The woman blanched. I am yet to spend €10 on a tomato – in season, they’re very good, plentiful, delicious and relatively inexpensive – but the first cherries will easily set you back €18 a kilo, and for reasons I cannot fathom, a humble cauliflower in my local market often costs upwards of €4. Instagram and TikTok are alive with well-manicured women in athleisure standing in million-dollar kitchens aghast at the cost of their weekly shop The rosy-cheeked man behind the counter shows them a receipt for €80-ish, and suddenly this simple lunch of a baguette and a bit of cheese isn’t quite the humble snack they had planned. While $10 Hamptons tomatoes are a summer joke, a good opportunity to laugh at the spoiled this-is-how-we-lobster-roll set, how much our food is going to cost us is a sobering thought.
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