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Two of summer's sweetest pleasures arrive as it's ending: an ocean warm enough to swim in, and exquisitely ripe heirloom tomatoes.

Crunchy and mild, the vegetable's perfectly suited to stir-frying, and a few go a long way.

Eggplant, like its fellow nightshades tomatoes and peppers, comes in a psychedelic array of shapes and colors, all in late-summer profusion now at the Greenmarket.

Like tomatoes and zucchini, sweet corn�available now in great, bulging, three-for-a-dollar heaps at your local farmer’s market�is a summer necessity.

There is the slime factor, yes, but you've got to admit those fuzzy little green pods are pretty cute.

Not just a pretty face, nasturtiums make for eminent nose-to-tail eating.

For anyone who thinks radishes only come red and round, a trip to a farmer’s market is a root-vegetable revelation.

When it comes to leafy greens, spinach has always lacked broccoli rabe’s sex appeal.

Not a separate species, as some landlubbers think, soft-shell crabs, a.k.a. peelers, are blue crabs that have shed their hard shells.

If ever a so-called �animated chopping machine� needed some good PR, it would be the bluefish.