Napoleon's Carpaccio

This was mentioned in The New York Times food section last week, a "carpaccio of tomatoes."

Now friends, you may slice a tomato thick or you may slice it thin, but no matter how thin you slice it, it's still just a sliced tomato. And a sliced grapefruit -- not an easy matter anyway -- is not a "carpaccio of grapefruit," which I have seen on menus; it's j…