Gazpacho and Ajo Blanco, are both delicious cold soups, and eaten in the hot summer weather of the Mediterranean, are totally delicious. This is where the most delicious ripe, and best flavoured peppers and tomatoes are found too. A beautiful cold soup on a hot mediterranean day has got to be a taste of heaven, or something very close to it.
At a pinch, excellent V8 juice, chilled, with some diced chilled cucumber and peppers, for garnish, would pass muster in other places.
I guess there must be equally delicious tomatoes and peppers in other hot/warm places, but for me, the Med is a clear winner.