Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
by Barry Estabrook, 2012, Andrew McMeel Publishing
Barry Estabrook does a good job of outlining what has happened to the tomato in Florida over the last few decades. It was particularly interesting because we live so close to the heart of Tomatoland and I didn’t have a lot of the information that the author provided.
The books seems divided into two separate themes: first, the conditions under which the workers live and work and, second, how the tomato evolved into a hard, tasteless fruit and the current efforts to fix the problem. The author does a pretty good job with each of these topics, but it makes the book a little disjointed.
There was a lot of information in this book that I didn’t know and I found it to be extremely readable. By the end of the book, however, I think I had had enough of tomatoes.
Note: This is the first book I have read using a Kindle Touch device. It was a pretty good experience, especially since I could make the text bigger. I put it in landscape mode so that I could have bigger text and still have a decent number of words on a line. It created a bit more page turning, but that was okay.
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