Though Paul J. DiMare Sr. started his produce career at the family’s wholesale operation in Boston, he made his biggest mark in the Florida tomato industry, earning the nickname Mr. Tomato along the way.
DiMare was born on April 14, 1941, in Boston, destined to join the family business that had been started 13 years earlier by his father, Anthony, and his two uncles, Dominic and Joseph. The trio started with a pushcart business in the streets of Boston but quickly grew into a repacking and wholesale operation adjacent to the Boston Terminal Market.
