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Author: William Alexander ,
Paul Bellantoni
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Imprint: Grand Central Publishing
Dimensions:
Width: 14.80cm
, Height: 2.60cm
, Length: 14.20cm
Weight: 0.227kg
ISBN: 9781668615577
ISBN 10: 1668615576
Publication Date: 07 June 2022
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
[Alexander's] bright writing highlights a pleasing variety of comical misadventures... Entertaining and educative.-- Kirkus Reviews on 52 Loaves [A] disarmingly witty take on horticulture...consistently funny.-- Washington Post on The $64 Tomato Alexander's breathless, witty memoir is a joy to read. It's equal parts fact and fun.-- Boston Globe on 52 Loaves Alexander's slightly poisoned paradise manages to impart an existential lesson on the interconnectedness of nature and the fine line between nurturing and killing.-- Publishers Weekly on The $64 Tomato Engaging, well-paced and informative.-- New York Times on The $64 Tomato Serious, irreverent, funny and informative at the same time.-- Jacques Pepin on 52 Loaves William Alexander has written an entertaining, broad-ranging history of the tomato, in a conversational, humorous style that uses tomatoes to explore history -- from the Aztecs to Italian cuisine and pizza -- along with the introduction of fascinating characters, issues such as climate change and hydroponics, heirloom mania, and the search for flavor in a world of GMOs and factory farming.-- Mark Pendergrast, author of Uncommon Grounds and For God, Country and Coca-Cola From the man who grew us The $64 Tomato, William Alexander is back in the garden...as well as in pizzerias in Naples (Italy), a ketchup factory, the local Pizza Hut, large-scale tomatoes farms in Naples (Florida), and the farmers markets where heirloom tomatoes are having their day in the sun, again. Ten Tomatoes That Changed the World is a fascinating and funny tell-all tale of how ten tomatoes are shaping our lives in unusual, unexpected, and (in some cases) very delicious directions.-- David Lebovitz, author of Drinking French and My Paris Kitchen
Author Information
William Alexander is a New York Times bestselling author and the writer of three critically-acclaimed books, including The $64 Tomato: How One Man Nearly Lost His Sanity, Spent a Fortune, and Endured an Existential Crisis in the Quest for the Perfect Garden. He's been featured on NPR's Morning Edition and Weekend Edition, and has written for the New York Times, the LA Times, Saveur, and others. Paul Bellantoni is a Los Angeles based, award-winning narrator and voice actor.
