My friend Cindy Nix Sturdivant lives on the Countiss Place near Swan Lake, Mississippi. She has a nice plot of tomatoes, herbs, and peppers out the back door of her kitchen. This hot and spicy dish is inspired by her. She is so much fun because she can always get folks fired up for a party, like her epic dove hunt party, which grows every year, on Labor Day weekend. She needs to plant a bigger plot.
Nix [no relation to Cindy] vs. Hedden was the case that brought the question of whether a tomato is a fruit or a vegetable before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1893. Although the tomato is a fruit, the court unanimously ruled that the tomato would be thought of as a vegetable in regards to the Tariff Act of 1883, setting a precedent that still holds today.
