The Tomato Underground

B2 Spanish · 4 min read

No one under thirty in Mexico City has ever tasted a tomato. In a boiler room beneath an apartment building, a 72-year-old grandmother is committing bioterrorism with a soup spoon.

B2 Spanish · 4 min read

A government inspector knocks on the door of an illegal kitchen at night. The old woman inside looks him over and says he's late for dinner. Frida Betancourt has always known that the most dangerous weapon in the city is a warm plate of soup.

B2 Spanish · 6 min read

The safest place to hide a garden, Frida decides, is inside a hundred strangers' pockets. Meanwhile, the inspector who should be arresting her is quietly rewriting the evidence against her friends.

B2 Spanish · 5 min read

Twelve tomato plants, one final dinner, and a raid scheduled for nine o'clock sharp. Frida Betancourt sets the table anyway.