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The Search for the Perfect Tomato
Counterpoint
March 2010
On Sale: March 1, 2010
320 pages
ISBN: 1582434263
EAN: 9781582434261
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
The tomato. As savory as any vegetable, as sweet as its
fellow fruits, the seeded succulent inspires a cultlike
devotion from food lovers on all continents. The people of
Ohio love the tomato so much they made tomato juice the
official state beverage. An annual food festival in Spain
draws thousands of participants for a 100-ton tomato fight.
The inimitable, versatile tomato has conquered the cuisines
of Spain and Italy, and in America it is our most popular
garden vegetable. Journalist Arthur Allen understands the
spell of the tomato and is your guide in telling its
dramatic story. He begins by describing in mouthwatering
detail the wonder of a truly delicious tomato, then
introduces the man who prospected for wild tomato genes in
South America and made them available to tomato breeders. He
tells the baleful story of enslaved Mexican Indians in the
Florida tomato fields, the conquest of the canning tomato by
the Chinese army, and the struggle of Italian tomato
producers to maintain a way of life. Allen combines
reportage, archival research, and innumerable anecdotes in a
lively narrative that, through the lens of today's global
market, tells a story that will resonate from the greenhouse
to the dinner table.
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