Tomatoland : how modern industrial agriculture destroyed our most alluring fruit

Summary: 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781449423452
ISBN: 1449423450
Physical Description: print
xxi, 233 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Publisher: Kansas City : Andrews McMeel Publishing, ©2012.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-213) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.