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Heirloom: Notes from an Accidental Tomato Farmer
by Stark, Tim
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0767927060
- ISBN 13
- 9780767927062
- Seller
-
Hyattsville, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Broadway Books, 2008-07-15. Hardcover. Very Good. Unmarked hardcover in unclipped jacket.
Synopsis
Situated beautifully at the intersection of Michael Pollan, Ruth Reichl, and Barbara Kingsolver, Heirloom is an inspiring, elegiac, and gorgeously written memoir about rediscovering an older and still vital way of life.Fourteen years ago, Tim Stark was living in Brooklyn, working days as a management consultant, and writing unpublished short stories by night. One evening, chancing upon a Dumpster full of discarded lumber, he carried the lumber home and built a germination rack for thousands of heirloom tomato seedlings. His crop soon outgrew the brownstone in which it had sprouted, forcing him to cart the seedlings to his family's farm in Pennsylvania, where they were transplanted into the ground by hand. When favorable weather brought in a bumper crop, Tim hauled his unusual tomatoes to New York City's Union Square Greenmarket, at a time when the tomato was unanimously red. The rest is history. Today, Eckerton Hill Farm does a booming trade in heirloom tomatoes and obscure chile peppers. Tim's tomatoes are featured on the menus of New York City's most demanding chefs and have even made the cover of Gourmet magazine.
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- Bookseller
- Robert Harper Books LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 057195
- Title
- Heirloom: Notes from an Accidental Tomato Farmer
- Author
- Stark, Tim
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0767927060
- ISBN 13
- 9780767927062
- Publisher
- Broadway Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2008-07-15
- LCCN
- 2007048075
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Robert Harper Books LLC
Biblio member since 2016
Hyattsville, Maryland
About Robert Harper Books LLC
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