FavorFlavs #12

We all have them: favorite flavors, ingredients and kitchen tools. FavorFlavs we always reach for (again). These are ours.

Big Tom spiced tomato juice

Tomato juice is one of the few readymade products you can put in your shopping basket as a foodie without any embarrassment. With many other ready-made products, disapproving comments quickly start flying around you (“Tssss, she doesn’t even make it herself!”).

Big Tom is in a completely different league from the average juice carton. And not only because of its bottle. The British fruit growers at White’s Fruit Farm in Suffolk who produce it mixed it with fruit and, above all, herbs for as long as it took to create the ideal base for your Bloody Mary. Ready to pour straight over your vodka. But even without the clock striking cocktail hour, you can drain this peppery Tom in one go.

Available at supermarkets.

Text: Marjan Ippel
Image: Danique de Bruijn