One whiff of a tomato leaf and I’m back in second grade in New Jersey — no warning, no buildup, just a clean sensory shortcut through time. It’s like my brain has a “Basement” button, and the tomato plant just hit it. My grandparents, who hailed from Sicily and Naples, are downstairs in their Morristown basement doing what they did every late summer: “making sauce”… except it wasn’t sauce yet. We were bottling tomatoes, preserving the whole season for later, like canning, but

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