Synopses & Reviews
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Tomatoes, Miriam Rubin gives this staple of southern gardens the passionate portrait it deserves, exploring the tomato's rich history in southern culture and inspiring home cooks to fully enjoy these summer fruits in all their glorious variety. Rubin, a nationally known food writer and tomato connoisseur, provides fifty vibrant recipes as well as wisdom about how to choose tomatoes and which tomato is right for which dish.
Tomatoes includes recipes that celebrate the down-home, inventive, and contemporary, such as Stand-over-the-Sink Tomato Sandwiches, Spiced Green Tomato Crumb Cake, Green Tomato and Pork Tenderloin Biscuit Pie, and Tomato and Golden Raisin Chutney. Rubin also offers useful cooking tips, lively lessons on history, cultivation, and preserving, and variations for year-round enjoyment of the tomato.
Review
"This lyrical little cookbook covers everything from history, cultivation and personal recollection to the tomato technique delivered in the recipes themselves. Informative to experienced cooks, it will also set up beginners for a lifelong tomato relationship. The easy-to-follow recipes give cooks enough information to make informed choices on tomato varieties and seasonal substitutions and will guide the tomato-addicted through both summer and winter."
--Martha Hall Foose, author of A Southerly Course: Recipes and Stories from Close to Home
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"This is a great book for tomato lovers everywhere. Read the excellent tomato information and ponder the charming prose, then get into the kitchen and cook yourself into tomato bliss so you can finally sit and savor every bite."--Marie Simmons, award-winning food writer and author of Fresh & Fast Vegetarian: Recipes that Make a Meal
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"If you love all things tomato, this little book is for you. . . . [Rubin's] recipes get a dash of history and are served up with personal wit and the wisdom of a real cook."
-Observer Reporter
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"Offers recipes that will get you through that big bumper crop of tomatoes--from green to the end of summer, and then covers uses for the canned tomatoes when fresh tomato season ends. . . . All the Southern standards are there."
-Edible Piedmont
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"[A] wonderful series of little cookbooks that look at the favorite foods and culinary traditions in the American South. . . . [Rubin] delivers 50 easy-to-follow, kitchen-tested recipes for the tomato, a Southern staple."
-Baton Rouge Advocate
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"[A] perfect cookbook. . . . One of the great pleasures of this compact cookbook is that Rubin, who's from rural Southwestern, PA, is a lively and inventive writer. . . . In Tomatoes, there are recipes for every conceivable use for fresh, store-bought and canned tomatoes."--Laura B. Weiss, Food and Things
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"Miriam Rubin serves up an array of such summer tomato specialties along with a creative collection of soups and sandwiches. . . . I can't wait to try them all."
-Charleston Post and Courier
Synopsis
In Tomatoes, Miriam Rubin gives this staple of southern gardens the passionate portrait it deserves, exploring the tomato's rich history in southern culture and inspiring home cooks to fully enjoy these summer fruits in all their glorious variety. Rubin, a nationally known food writer and tomato connoisseur, provides fifty vibrant recipes as well as wisdom about how to choose tomatoes and which tomato is right for which dish.
Synopsis
In Tomatoes, Miriam Rubin gives this staple of southern gardens the passionate portrait it deserves, exploring the tomato's rich history in southern culture and inspiring home cooks to fully enjoy these summer fruits in all their glorious variety. Rubin, a nationally known food writer and tomato connoisseur, provides fifty vibrant recipes as well as wisdom about how to choose tomatoes and which tomato is right for which dish.
About the Author
Miriam Rubin, a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, was the first woman to work in the kitchen of the Four Seasons Restaurant. Author of Grains, she writes the food and gardening column "Miriam's Garden" for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.