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Tomatoland How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit

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ISBN-10: 1449423450

ISBN-13: 9781449423452

Edition: 2012

Authors: Barry Estabrook

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Supermarket produce sections bulging with a year-round supply of perfectly round, bright red-orange tomatoes have become all but a national birthright. But inTomatoland, which is based on his James Beard Award-winning article, "The Price of Tomatoes," investigative food journalist Barry Estabrook reveals the huge human and environmental cost of the $5 billion fresh tomato industry. Fields are sprayed with more than one hundred different herbicides and pesticides. Tomatoes are picked hard and green and artificially gassed until their skins acquire a marketable hue. Modern plant breeding has tripled yields, but has also produced fruits with dramatically reduced amounts of calcium, vitamin A,…    
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Book details

List price: $15.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Publication date: 4/24/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 7.25" wide x 4.75" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English

James Beard Award-winning journalist Barry Estabrook was a contributing editor atGourmetmagazine for eight years, writing investigative articles about where food comes from. He was the founding editor ofEating Wellmagazine and has written for theNew York Times Magazine, Reader's Digest, Men's Health, Audubon, and theWashington Post, and contributes regularly toThe Atlantic Monthly's website. His work has been anthologized in the Best American Food Writing series, and he has been interviewed on numerous television and radio shows. He lives and grows tomatoes in his garden in Vermont.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: On the Tomato Trail
Roots
A Tomato Grows in Florida
Chemical Warfare
From the Hands of a Slave
An Unfair Fight
A Penny per Pound
Matters of Taste
Building a Better Tomato
Tomatoman
Wild Things
Afterword: New World, Old Challenge
Notes
Bibliography
Index