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Thoroughly enjoyed this clever, witty yet informative book about my favorite vegetable- oops fruit. The tomato has a rich and sometimes debatable history fraught with exaggerations as well as industrial opportunists. Who really invented ketchup? Or Catsup? Who actually brought tomatoes to the United States.? Have human tastes changed so much since the 18th century when a tomato was thought to be the worse tasting vegetable in the garden? Full of facts presented in an easily understandable and pl...
Excellent social and gastronomical History of everyone's favourite fruit to put on a pizza! Alexander travels through time and geography to regal us with the evolution of the tomato(e) from its discovery by Western explorers to its being a soulless/tasteless slab of orange-red that slides off our fast food burger. Excellent read. Highly recommended for micro-history and food history fans and a great rad for everyone else!
This is a shockingly fascinating book considering that it's entirely about tomatoes. The author approaches the topic from several different angles roughly arranged chronologically through the chapters. I definitely found the first half of the book more engaging. These chapters included topics about the very early history of tomatoes, pizza, spaghetti, shifting opinions about tomatoes, and more. It's more about history and society. The later parts of the book focus more on things like genetically...
Tomatoes have a surprisingly interesting history, and the author does a good job of bringing it to life. Especially interesting was the chapter about pizza and how tomato sauce became a must-have ingredient. Sadly, as tomatoes have become more important as a food source, much of their flavor has been lost. But if we were to go back to the more flavorful tomatoes of the past, we’d have to pay a much higher cost. Occasionally, the author gets a bit too deep into the weeds. However, for the most pa...
