Sunday, February 15, 2009

Book Recommendation -- The Heirloom Tomato

We have a couple varieties of tomatoes germinating in the greenhouse right now, and we're already coming down with tomato fever. We are coming up on the last of the tomatoes we canned and looking forward to eating fresh tomatoes to eat this summer. Last summer, we enjoyed reading The Heirloom Tomato: From Garden to Table by Amy Goldman. The book has gorgeous photos, good recipes, and, most interesting for us, detailed descriptions and histories of the world's best heirloom tomatoes. Featured in the book are the Black Plum, Great White, Yellow Pear, and Zapotec, all of which we're growing this season. Heirloom tomatoes are grown for flavor, not appearance--they won't look like the pictures on ketchup bottles, but they give you divine taste experience. We enjoy growing heirlooms because we love to cook and we love the natural variety we see in our tomato harvest. There's nothing like an eggplant parmesan made with heirlooms for the sauce.

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