Everyday Leaders. Pursuing Passions Portland Trail Blazers guard C.J. McCollum â13 led Lehighâs upset win over Duke in the 2012 NCAA Tournament and was the first Lehigh player to be selected in the NBA draft. McCollum, who studied journalism at Lehigh, has said that he hopes to become a broadcast journalist after his career in the NBA.
Matthioliâs classification of the tomato as a mandrake had later ramifications. Like similar fruits and vegetables in the solanaceae familyâthe eggplant for example, the tomato garnered a shady reputation for being both poisonous and a source of temptation.
Botanically, a tomato is a fruit, a berry, consisting of the ovary, together with its seeds, of a flowering plant. However, the tomato has a much lower sugar content than other edible fruits, and is therefore not as sweet. Typically served as part of a salad or main course of a meal, rather than at dessert, it is, in the US, considered a culinary vegetable.