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American tomato : the complete guide to growing and using tomatoes
2005
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Citing the popularity and health benefits of tomatoes in America today, a guide to cultivating and cooking tomatoes provides forty favorite recipes and sections on such topics as container gardening and storing and preserving. Original. - (Baker & Taylor)

As everyone knows there is currently a shortage of tomatoes, and the prices in stores are skyrocketing. There is no better time than now for people to learn how to grow their own. Hendrickson provides tips on how to grow tomatoes year round. American Tomato is chalk full of information on storing and growing tomatoes, the different varieties of tomatoes, and delicious tomato recipes. This is the complete tomato guide for any vegetable gardener or tomato lover alike. - (Natl Book Network)

Everything you need to know about selecting, growing, and preparing delicious tomatoes. - (NBN)

Author Biography

Robert Hendrickson is the author of more than 25 books, including British Literary Anecdotes, Mountain Range, and New York Tawk. He lives in Peconic, New York. - (NBN)

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This revised, updated edition of the author's The Great American Tomato Book (o.p.) presents accurate information for gardeners about tomato growing conditions, maintenance issues (such as staking and pruning), and the pests and diseases to fight. Die-hard gardeners will appreciate the advice on extending the tomato season by starting seeds and growing plants indoors, planting early varieties, and combating frigid conditions; specialists will welcome comments on growing in containers and saving seeds. Hendrickson also includes a brief chapter on tomato history and chapters on preserving the harvest and cooking your tomatoes. Among the 40 recipes are familiar comfort foods and condiments as well as more unusual offerings like tomato pudding and candied tomatoes. Tomato lovers seeking more on tomato history, art, and cookery, however, will be better served by Ronni Lundy's beautiful In Praise of Tomatoes . For more tomato recipes, Lawrence Davis-Hollander's The Tomato Festival Cookbook offers 150 and enough basic gardening information to get someone started. Hendrickson's readable book is recommended as a worthwhile addition to extensive gardening collections.--Bonnie Poquette, Milwaukee

[Page 98]. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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A lot has happened in the worlds of food and gardening since 1977, when Hendrickson published The Great American Tomato Book , now updated, revised and renamed in paperback. The new edition attempts to cover everything from history to recipes, but Hendrickson's no-nonsense approach is a minor addition to the market in today's local-produce- crazed, foodie world. He's at his best when he takes home gardeners by the hand and walks them through the complexities of growing tomatoes, either in the ground or in containers. Other authors have written more artfully of the tomato's history, and any local gardening columnist will have more to say about why to choose one Heirloom varietal over another, but Hendrickson is a man who knows his seedlings, soil, sun and sowing. When it comes to practical problems like staking, mulching and fertilizing, home gardeners will find him to be a useful and informative guide. Most will also welcome the too-brief canning and preserving chapter. However, there are few surprises in the perfunctory recipe section. The appendixes include descriptive lists of hundreds of early, main season and late season tomatoes. But photographs--which were integral to the original edition--would've helped the book fare better among the stiff gardening competition. (Jan.)

[Page 60]. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

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