Brown Sugar Tomato

A really nice Russian tomato with that wonderful, rich, dark flavor. The name in Russian is Korichnevyi Sakhar, which translates to Brown Sugar. Most “black or purple tomatoes” originated on the Crimean Penninsula located in the Ukraine, Russia, Europe. During the Crimean War (1853-1856), Russian soldiers from the more northern regions of Russia discovered these delicious and oddly colored tomatoes on their campaigns to subjugate the Ukraine. Many of the soldiers carried seeds back to their families when the war ended, and thus, the “black or purple” tomatoes proliferated throughout the eastern sections of Mother Russia.