来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：有关食物的心理学、生物学和政治学第11集第11集》

There was an article in New York Magazine in 2006

两千零六年的《纽约杂志》上有篇文章
that I thought was quite interesting here.

我觉得很适合在这里看一看
They gave examples of two different tomatoes.

他们用了两个不同的番茄作为例子
The one on the left is called the Striped German tomato,

左边那只叫做德国条纹番茄
raised in New Jersey.

是在新泽西种植的
It has a relatively short shelf life unless it's refrigerated,

它的保质期很短除非放在冰箱里
but that harms the taste properties,

但这样会影响它的味道
and so it's usually eaten locally or

通常他们都只在本地供应
shipped into Manhattan let's say.

或者运到曼哈顿
The cost is high because you can't raise so many of them,

由于不能种很多所以它们的成本很高
the one on the right is a hybrid round red

右边的那个叫杂交圆番茄
that's grown in different parts of the country,

在全国各地都有种植