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June 10, 2006

Summer tomatoes

Summer is a cummin in and to those of us in the Northeast that means the return of wonderful, flavorful, delicious, home grown tomatoes. Three new books talk about growing these beauties or maybe give you reasons not to grow them.

All home gardeners will find something to identify with in The $64 Tomato, William Alexander's hillarious gardening memoir of trying to create the perfect kitchen garden.

American Tomato: The Complete Guide to Growing and Using Tomatoes by Robert Hendrickson is an updated, revised and renamed tomato bible he wrote in the late '70’s called The Great American Tomato Book. The new book is great for gardening advice because, as the reviewer says, “Hendrickson is a man who knows his seedlings, soil, sun and sowing.”

Keith Stewart’s It’s a Long Road to a Tomato: Tales of an Organic Farmer Who Quit the Big City for the (not so) Simple Life is a thoughtful, candid account of organic farming today. Stewart has farmed for almost 20 years and writes on food issues and farming for Gourmet magazine and the New York Times.

Posted by MaryF at June 10, 2006 11:29 AM