After delivering a punishing blow to tomato growers, the feds announced the source of the salmonella outbreak from food is probably jalapenos. This morning's paper attributes the detection to Minnesotans. Our epidemiologist, Michael Osterholm, is a relentless detective and a giant among scientists in tracking down sources of infection. I have read this man will not eat food grown outside of the USA. Consumer beware. These detectives traced a local outbreak to a restaurant that garnished with jalapeno salsa. Even the employees got sick--hence they weren't the carriers. They found people who have eaten at the restaurants by tracing credit card purchases.
I feel better eating tomatoes now but still buy just the ones grown in a Minnesota greenhouse. It shouldn't be long before our tomato plants are producing. We have loads of green ones that are beginning to ripen. This is already late for tomatoes but we had a cool spring and early summer.
I didn't plant jalapenos. Maybe I can buy a can of that pepper spray for the salsa. No Mexican peppers for me this year.
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