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Americans don’t readily take to food in tubes. To our way of thinking, tubes are for ointments, lubricants, and toothpaste; they belong in the medicine cabinet, not in the kitchen. That’s too bad, for Europeans and Asians caught on long ago that the tube is the perfect package for a squirt of tomato paste, basil pesto, pureed lemongrass, or prepared wasabi. Not only is dispensing easy, but storage problems are nil. Take tomato paste, for instance. How many times have you confronted a desiccated half-can of tomato paste lurking in the nether reaches of your refrigerator? Tomato paste in a tube never goes bad, because after you use what you want and replace the cap, air can’t get into it, and if air can’t get in, neither can molds, which would cause the contents to decay. More and more essential cooking ingredients are available in tubes. In my local supermarket I can buy cilantro, lemongrass, basil, hot peppers, tomato paste, sun-dried tomatoes, basil pesto, garlic, and anchovy paste in tubes.
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