New York, USA: Broadway Books, 2008. Second-hand hardcover. Stark, Tim. Heirloom: notes from an accidental tomato farmer. Broadway Books: New York, USA 2008. 8vo HC 232pp. VG/VG rem mark

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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way of life.Fourteen years ago, Tim Stark was living in Brooklyn, working days as a management consultant, and writing unpublished short stories by night.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 family's 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 City's 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. Tim's tomatoes are featured on the menus of New York City's most demanding chefs and have even made the cover of Gourmet magazine.

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Bookseller: Books for Cooks (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 9780767927062-1
Title: Heirloom: notes from an accidental..
Author: Stark, Tim
Format/Binding: Second-hand hardcover
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0767927060
ISBN 13: 9780767927062
Publisher: Broadway Books
Place of Publication: New York, USA
Date Published: 2008
LCCN: 2007048075
Bookseller catalogs: Reference & Food Writing;

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