Heirloom : notes from an accidental toma
β Tim Stark
π Library
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2008
π Broadway Books
π English
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Heirloom: Notes from an Accidental Tomato Farmer
β Scribed by Tim Stark
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- Broadway Books
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- 2008
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- English
- Leaves
- 242
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- 1st
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- Library
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Situated beautifully at the intersection of Michael Pollan, Ruth Reichl, and Barbara Kingsolver, Heirloom is an inspiring, elegiac, and gorgeously written memoir about rediscovering an older and still vital way of life.
Fourteen years ago, Tim Stark was living in Brooklyn, working days as a management consultant, and writing unpublished short stories by night. One evening, chancing upon a Dumpster full of discarded lumber, he carried the lumber home and built a germination rack for thousands of heirloom tomato seedlings. His crop soon outgrew the brownstone in which it had sprouted, forcing him to cart the seedlings to his familyβs farm in Pennsylvania, where they were transplanted into the ground by hand. When favorable weather brought in a bumper crop, Tim hauled his unusual tomatoes to New York Cityβs Union Square Greenmarket, at a time when the tomato was unanimously red. The rest is history. Today, Eckerton Hill Farm does a booming trade in heirloom tomatoes and obscure chile peppers. Timβs tomatoes are featured on the menus of New York Cityβs most demanding chefs and have even made the cover of Gourmet magazine.
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