Tomatoland : how modern industrial agriculture destroyed our most alluring fruit / Barry Estabrook.
Material type: TextPublication details: Kansas City, Mo. : Andrews McMeel Pub., c2011.Description: xvii, 220 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781449401092 :
- 1449401090
- Tomato land
- SB349 .E78 2011
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Investigative food journalist Barry Estabrook reveals the huge human and environmental cost of the $5 billion fresh tomato industry and the price we pay as a society when we take taste and thought out of our food purchases.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 194-206) and index.
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.