Garden Variety: The American Tomato from Corporate to Heirloom

by John Hoenig

Book Overview

Chopped in salads, scooped up in salsa, slathered on pizza and pasta, squeezed onto burgers and fries, and filling aisles with roma, cherry, beefsteak, on-the-vine, and heirloom: where would American food, fast and slow, high and low, be without the tomato? The tomato represents the best and worst of American cuisine: though the plastic-looking corporate tomato is the hallmark of industrial agriculture, the tomato's history also encompasses farmers'...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231179081
• ISBN13: 9780231179089
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"