Tomatoland : How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Estabrook, Barry.

Contributor:

Schlosser, Eric.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tomatoes.

Florida.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Tomatoland

Place of Publication:

: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2018.

Summary:

"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."-- Amazon.com.

Contents:

Introduction : On the tomato trail

Roots

A tomato grows in Florida

Chemical warfare

From the hands of a slave

An unfair fight

A penny per pound

Uncharted territory

Judgment

Harvest of hope

Slavery 2.0

Building a better tomato

Wild things.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781449493233

1449493238

OCLC:

1317329187