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It's already tomato season in parts of the South. My state is listed as one of the safe ones, and I was planning to cook my tomato anyway.

Either I cook 'em or I wait until in-season. I've also got the tomatoes I canned last summer.

Only eating/serving the ones we grow. We've already harvested several rounds of grape and cherry tomatoes.

In Tucson, my cherry tomatoes and yellow pears are ripening!

i bought tomatoes from a farm that grew 'em in their greenhouse, so i'm guessing that's safe.

I've got a bag of roma tomatoes that I think I'll end up turning into tomato soup or something. Somewhat sad about this because I was really jonesing for a caprese salad.

Jen-G, as a fellow Tucsonan, I have to ask -- how on earth do you grow tomatoes here?! I've tried all sorts of varieties and they keep being killed by the ever present, oh-so-evil sun. Do you keep them in a mostly shaded area?

I had already eaten some of the Romas and didn't get sick so I finished them out and didn't buy any more this week although they did have some at the farmers market marked homegrown though I'm not sure how since its Chicago, maybe homegrown under lights?

Have been buying locally grown hydroponics from the farmer's market... not exactly the most flavorful tomatoes in June. But, they're local... and that's a world better than grocery store fodder.

I grow my own.

We're getting some early local heirlooms in the Bay Area so I've eaten those without concern.

I don't eat tomatoes at all so this doesn't effect me (and on some level I find it mildly amusing, though I do feel bad for tomato lovers out there).

I made spanish rice :)

All of my tomatoes are coming from my CSA box or the backyard. Early summer has brought early tomatoes down here.

I just learned that the FDA has only issued an "advisory" not a recall.

Nevertheless, I only serve vine-ripe tomatoes and grape tomatoes (until I can get local heirloom tomatoes.)

Tomatoes are in season in and around Phoenix, so I either get them from a friend whose crop is flourishing or pick them up at the local farmers' market.

Shoot, tomato season is practically over down here. Plus, I buy all of mine at the Farmers Market and grow my own, so I'm cool.

Here in southern california, it's already tomato season--and we buy our tomatoes (and almost everything else we eat) at the Farmer's market, so I'm not too worried...