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    <body><![CDATA[The seeds for the German Johnson Pink tomatoes I'm growing were brought to Iowa from Bremen, Germany in 1883 by Michael Ott. A year after his death, Ott's grandchildren founded the Seed Saver's Exchange in order to preserve heirloom variety seeds in the U.S. The German Johnson Pink became SSE's Tomato No. 1 out of a collection of nearly 6,000 tomatoes. Until The Heirloom Tomato, I was completely ignorant of the history I held in my hands when the seed packet was purchased last spring. Amy Goldman captures the manifold shapes, colors and tastes that heirloom tomatoes can acquire in bewitching photographs and phenomenal recipes (fried green tomatoes!). Goldman's tomato genealogies reveal the many reasons why growing heirloom variety plants and vegetables is crucial in the age of big box grocery chains (with their tasteless, bland greenhouse tomatoes) and genetically modified foods.]]></body>
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