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Is Tomato a vegetable or a fruit? A kitchen's worth of produce wants to know. Following much pun-filled discussion (Artichoke: "Where's his heart?"), everyone turns to Old Man Produce (a wrinkled, prune-like edible) for the verdict. Hoffman takes this one-note joke impressively far, and the sumptuous art will have young readers hankering for a fruit (or is it vegetable?) salad.