The Tomato Festival Cookbook: 150 Recipes that Make the Most of Your Crop of Lush, Vine-Ripened, Sun-Warmed, Fat, Juicy, Ready-to-Burst Heirloom Tomatoes

by Lawrence Davis-Hollander

With 150 tempting recipes for those lush, vine-ripened, sun-warmed, fat, juicy, and ready-to-burst heirloom tomatoes, The Tomato Festival Cookbook is the landmark cookbook for America's favorite garden vegetable. Author Lawrence Davis-Hollander presents an exhaustive collection of everything about the tomato--from tomato lore, gardening how-to, expert advice on seed saving and preservation to selecting the right heirlooms for your garden and your kitchen. With definitive recipes for such classics as Tomato Basil Quiche and marinara sauce to show-stoppers from chefs Alice Waters, Deborah Madison, Daniel Boulud, Rick Bayless, and Melissa Kelly, to name a few.

Whether you grow your own rainbow selection of heirlooms or are thinking of adding them to your garden, Davis-Hollander has the best advice on heirloom growing. As the founder and director of the Eastern Native Seed Conservancy, an organization dedicated to promoting our knowledge of useful plants, especially heirloom food plants, Davis-Hollanderhas handpicked the recipes and the chefs to contribute to this preeminent tomato bible. Along with an impressive background in botany and farming, Lawrence is committed to food preservation, sustainable farming, and the rebirth of the American Farmer's Market. For the tomato lover who does not have a garden full of plump, red heirlooms, this book offers a guide to the local Farmer's Market with a knowledgeable eye and an appetite for Green Zebras, Cherokee Chocolates, Box Car Willies, Omar's Lebanese, and Earl of Edgecombs. With recipes for everything from salsas, risottos, and Chicken Nicoise to tomato tarts and sorbet, The Tomato Festival Cookbook takes the tomato to new culinary heights. For anyone who loves eating, growing, preserving or just admiring tomatoes, The Tomato Festival Cookbook is as essential to the kitchen as the tomato itself.

Genres: Food, Cooking, Gardening, Cookbooks

320 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2004

Reviews

[Valley Cottage Library]

SUMMER READING CLUB: "Wonderful tidbits to whet the appetite and controversy over heirloom, hybrids & cultivation. Filled with scrumptious recipes- new & old. A must have for tomato lovers. I will probably purchase a copy of this book for my shelf."

"Beyond your normal salad. Delves into heirlooms and all their blooms. Tons of yummy recipes and tidbits even the best connoisseur could glean!"-Ann Owens

[Marian]

Some yummy sounding simple tomato salsa and sauces, up to more complex stuff. I'd give it more stars except the first 62 pages were the history of he tomato, tomato growing and diseases. Ugh! not in my cookbook. It's hard to get past that huge tomato horn worm illustration.

[Alisha O]

This book has it all for tomato-lovers. How to save seeds, all about growing, tons of historical information, various lists of heirloom tomatoes, and a lot of tomato recipes.