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Notes from an Accidental Tomato Farmer
Broadway
July 2008
On Sale: July 15, 2008
240 pages
ISBN: 0767927060
EAN: 9780767927062
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Situated beautifully at the intersection of Michael Pollan,
Ruth Reichl, and Barbara Kingsolver, Heirloom is an
inspiring, elegiac, and gorgeously written memoir about
rediscovering an older and still vital way of
life.
Fourteen years ago, Tim Stark was living in
Brooklyn, working days as a management consultant, and
writing unpublished short stories by night. One evening,
chancing upon a Dumpster full of discarded lumber, he
carried the lumber home and built a germination rack for
thousands of heirloom tomato seedlings. His crop soon
outgrew the brownstone in which it had sprouted, forcing him
to cart the seedlings to his family’s farm in Pennsylvania,
where they were transplanted into the ground by hand. When
favorable weather brought in a bumper crop, Tim hauled his
unusual tomatoes to New York City’s Union Square
Greenmarket, at a time when the tomato was unanimously red.
The rest is history. Today, Eckerton Hill Farm does a
booming trade in heirloom tomatoes and obscure chile
peppers. Tim’s tomatoes are featured on the menus of New
York City’s most demanding chefs and have even made the
cover of Gourmet magazine.
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