Earlier this month, we were urged to avoid tomatoes because, since mid-April, almost 200 people have died from an unusual, virulent form of salmonella in almost 20 states while others have been hospitalized. The FDA has been investigating and put raw red plum tomatoes, raw red Roma tomatoes, and raw round red tomatoes on the no-no list. I'm avoiding tomatoes, which I love, completely until they figure it out. This is scary and it's even scarier that this has been happening since mid-April.