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Title: The Heirloom Tomato: From Garden to Table: Recipes, Portraits, and History of the World's Most Beautiful Fruit
ISBN: 159691291X
Author:
Amy Goldman
Publicate Date: 2008-08-05
Publish: 2008-08-05
List Price: $35.00
Average Customer Rating: 5.0
Format: Hardcover
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1: Loving the tomato
To say that Amy Goldman's The Heirloom Tomato is a stunningly beautiful book is, for anyone familiar with Goldman's earlier masterworks on squash and melons, merely to state the obvious. But the tomato which is, as the subtitle indicates, "the world's most beautiful fruit," turns out to be an incomparable seductress of the camera. Any reader who settles, however, for making this a coffee-table book and neglects a serious engagement with the text will have missed at least half the delight. The pleasure begins with photographer Victor Schrager's loving description of how these luscious photos were set up and Amy's surprising story of her life-long link to tomatoes including a cousin Tillie who brought Italy's famous San Mazano (see page 137) to America. Then--after the instructions for growing them yourself, and some help in understanding shapes, colors, flavors, textures, foliage and the like--come the tomato portraits, each accompanied by any technical detail you might need to know, plus a bit of absorbing history personal or otherwise. The recipes that end the book are, as you would expect, about celebrating these fruits for their versatility and flavor as well as their looks. A glorious book. Joan Dye Gussow
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2: eye-popping , mouth-watering delight!!
The Heirloom Tomato, Amy Goldman's new book on everyone's favorite fruit-vegetable, is an eye-popping , mouth-watering delight. On page after delicious page, the 258-page book provides offers up a cornucopia of history, etymology, botanical description and elegant, taste-teasing recipes, all of it served up through elegant writing and erudite scholarship, and ornamented richly with Victor Schrager's magnificent photographs.
My only regret is that the book is so pretty that it is hard to imagine abusing it in the two settings - the kitchen, and the garden -- in which it will surely find its highest and best use. Despite all the elegance, the publisher (Bloomsbury) has managed to keep the base price of the book at a very modest $35.
Robin Anthony Elliott, Tomatophile
New York City
August 26, 2008
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3: It's A Masterpiece
Amy Goldman so captures the magic of heirloom tomatoes the reader almost inhales that distinct summer fragrance with every turn of the page. Each tomato has a carefully researched history and sometimes even a romance shared with the reader. I especially value the detailed notes on each variety for sweetness, flavor, texture and general growing information.
Victor Schrager's tomato photographs are extraordinary and used lavishly throughout the book. This is a book to share and show every friend who gardens or enjoys good food. And, yes, there are some fine recipes included.
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4: Amy Captures the Beauty of Heirloom Tomatoes!
Amy Goldman's passion for fruits and vegetable will certainly gain new enthusiasts who will share that passion after viewing the wonderful pictures taken by Victor Schrager and reading all the well researched histories of selected heirloom tomato varieties which Amy has gathered.
This reviewer is obviously enthralled with the book. Some of my more notable tomato variety creations such as Green Zebra are featured in this new publication. I feel like I am a living Heirloom Tomato Breeder! Amy has listed 200 varieties in the index and my breeding work has contributed directly or indirectly to about 10% of those! So as you read through the book, you just might see why I feel she has partly written a book about me! I just wish I could find a way for folks to see my hundreds of new tomato varieties in my current breeding work.
However much I feel like I am part of the book, Amy is the real heroine. She actually grew these tomatoes and matches the varieties to fantastic recipes!
This is a book that can be read many times over. Leave in on your coffee table for your guests to marvel over! This is the book to give you Spring Fever in all seasons! Thank Amy by buying this book.
Tom Wagner
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