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Garden Variety: The American Tomato from Corporate to Heirloom (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)

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Chopped in salads, scooped up in salsa, slathered on pizza and pasta, squeezed onto burgers and fries, and filling aisles with roma, cherry, beefsteak, on-the-vine, and heirloom: where would American food, fast and slow, high and low, be without the tomato? The tomato represents the most productive and worst of American cuisine: though the plastic-having a look corporate tomato is the hallmark of industrial agriculture, the tomato’s history also encompasses farmers’ markets and home gardens. Garden Variety illuminates American culinary culture from 1800 to the present, challenging a simple story of mass-produced homogeneity and demonstrating the persistence of diverse food cultures right through modern The us.

John Hoenig explores the path by which, over the last two centuries, the tomato went from a rare seasonal crop to The us’s favorite vegetable. He pays particular attention to the noncorporate tomato. All over the twentieth century, as food production, processing, and distribution became increasingly more centralized, the tomato remained king of the vegetable garden and, in contemporary years, has grow to be the centerpiece of alternative food cultures. Reading seed catalogs, menus, and cookbooks, and following the efforts of cooks and housewives to find new how you can prepare and preserve tomatoes, Hoenig challenges the extent to which branding, advertising, and marketing dominated twentieth-century American life. He emphasizes the importance of tomatoes to a lot of immigrant groups and their influence on the development of American food cultures. Garden Variety highlights the limits on corporations’ ability to shape what we eat, inviting us to rethink the history of our foodways and to take the opportunity to expand the palate of American cuisine.

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