Tomatoland, Third Edition: From Harvest of Shame to Harvest of Hope

by Barry Estabrook

Overview

Three-time James Beard Award-winner Barry Estabrook’s completely revised third edition of his hard-hitting 2011 exposé, Tomatoland, includes a new foreword by Eric Schlosser and four new chapters with startling updates.
 

Four entirely new chapters take up where the current edition leaves off to tell the story behind what president Bill Clinton calls “the most astonishing thing politically in the world we’re living in today.” Estabrook reveals how a rag-tag group of migrant tomato pickers in Florida convinced the world’s largest restaurant chains and food retailers to join forces to create a model for labor justice, and then took the necessary steps to make sure that the model really works, not only in Florida, but around the world.
 
The book includes a new foreword by journalist and author Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation).
 

 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781449489533
Publisher:	Andrews McMeel Publishing
Publication date:	04/03/2018
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

 James Beard Award-winning journalist Barry Estabrook was a contributing editor at Gourmet magazine for eight years, writing investigative articles about where food comes from. He was the founding editor of Eating Well magazine and has written for the New York Times Magazine, Reader's Digest, Men's Health, Audubon, and the Washington Post, and contributes regularly to The Atlantic Monthly's website. His work has been anthologized in the Best American Food Writing series, and he has been interviewed on numerous television and radio shows. He lives and grows tomatoes in his garden in Vermont.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments x

Foreword Eric Schlosser xii

Introduction: On the Tomato Trail xiii

Roots 1

A Tomato Crows in Florida 19

Chemical Warfare 35

From the Hands of a Slave 71

An Unfair Fight 95

A Penny per Pound 119

Uncharted Territory 137

Judgment 149

Harvest of Hope 157

Slavery 20 171

Building a Better Tomato 179

Wild Things 199

Notes 203

Bibliography 221

Index 223