Book Review — Heirloom: Notes from an Accidental Tomato Farmer

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Book Review — Heirloom: Notes from an Accidental Tomato Farmer

Heirloom: Notes from an Accidental Tomato Farmer, by Tim Stark
Broadway Books (available July 15, 2008)
ISBN: 978-0767927062
Price: $24.00 (U.S.)

Tim Stark may be a farmer extraordinaire, a curator of the living museum of tomato history, an astute-eyed, quick-thinking dumpster diver, and a bit of a curmudgeon with a whole lot of Tom Sawyer mixed in, but above all this, he is a story teller.

From the opening pages of Heirloom: Notes From an Accidental Tomato Farmer, which actually contained the phrase “this jungle of sumptuous, mismatched love apples”, I knew that I was in the hands of a master of language. And indeed, Tim Stark was narrowly rescued from the life of a starving writer in New York by the life of a seasonally flush farmer with a truck patch. He’d been a struggling fiction writer wrestling existentially in Brooklyn before taking up the spade. Or, as he sums up the birth of his farming life: Out in the (Brooklyn) street one wintry March evening, pacing and frothing over poverty, injustice, and those politely worded impersonal rejection letters that quarterlies dispense the way banks hand out toasters, I came upon a trash dumpster loaded with basement scraps.

And the rest is written in the dirt.

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3 Responses to “Book Review — Heirloom: Notes from an Accidental Tomato Farmer”

Greg says:

June 13, 2008 at 2:59 pm

We actually met Tim Stark at the farmers market in NY. He’s got allmost as many peppers now as he has tomatoes, and we bought some (tomatoes) and ate them on the spot. Delicious. I didn’t know he had a book, but now I plan to order it. Thanks for the review!
Erika of Sweet Pea Blog says:

June 16, 2008 at 9:31 am

Thanks for the review – I am always on the lookout for new foodie books.
Just bought the “the History of Taste” for my father for father’s day… his feedback has been nothing but positive
PS wonderful choice of name for your blog
Becky says:

June 16, 2008 at 9:52 am

Erika, thanks! I love the photos on you blog, and am looking forward to spending some time with the recipes!