The Tomato Festival Cookbook

This landmark cookbook for America's favorite garden vegetable includes 150 recipes, gardening advice, expert information about seed saving and preservation, and tells how to select heirloom tomatoes for the garden and kitchen.

Whether you say "to-may-to" or you say "to-mah-to," chances are you'll agree there's nothing like the taste of a sun-ripened heirloom tomatoand this beautifully photographed book is a cornucopia for the tomato lover. First there are the recipes: 50 in all, provided by such notable food names as One Market, Caprial's Bistro, Jimtown Store, and DaVero Olive Oil. Perfect for brunch, cocktails, or dinner, tomatoes are showcased in such delicious dishes as Gazpacho with Cucumber Salsa Verde, Cheese and Pesto Fondue with Tomato-Foccacia Skewers, and Grilled Sea Bass with Lemon-Oregano, Tomato Relish. Accompanying each is a wine pairing suggested by Kendall-Jackson, which each year hosts the Heirloom Tomato Festival in Sonomathe inspiration for this book. Then there's the photographic glossary of the top 25 heirloom varieties, detailed cultivation information, and an invaluable sourcelist of seeds and plants to entice those who want to eat their fruit and grow it too. Add to this, advice on choosing and storing tomatoes and a brief history, and you have a book as vibrant as the tomato it celebrates.

A celebration of Southern food and fun with over three hundred recipes and information on seventy-five great events! A food festival is a wonderfully American event that happens in small towns and large cities all over the South, celebrating everything from onions to peanuts, chocolate to chowder. This collection is both cookbook and travel guide, with delicious recipes and festival information on events from Virginia to Texas. Southern food and Southern parties—or rather Southern parties about Southern food—are the very best kind. Featured festivals include: Chicken and Egg Festival—Moulton, Alabama West Virginia Strawberry Festival—Buckhannon, West Virginia Bradley County Pink Tomato Festival—Warren, Arkansas Shrimp and Grits: The Wild Georgia Shrimp Festival, Jekyll Island, Georgia Suffolk Peanut Festival—Suffolk, Virginia Cornbread Festival—South Pittsburgh, TN Houston Hot Sauce Festival—Houston, Texas

The tomato is considered a vegetable and consumed as such but it is actually a fruit, and a very popular one. Easy to eat, easy to carry and easy to prepare, it wins everyone’s votes. Round and red is the most popular, however, we find other shapes, sizes, and colors—more than 10,000 varieties in the world—and let’s not forget all the benefits it brings to our health too. Very simple to consume, it lends itself to infinite preparation and, all its qualities, make it one of the most consumed fruits in the world. It provides us with a good amount of vitamin C, so important to strengthen the functioning of the immune system of our body. You will feel much more energy and another important benefit of tomato is that it can help you lose weight. Indeed, it is proven that tomato has the property to burn fat in the body. Other benefits are that it can reduce the risk of stroke, in addition to preventing cardiovascular disease, reduce the risk of osteoporosis for women, and many other. For all these reasons, the tomato should always be present in the daily diet of your whole family. Let me show you how easy it is to use the tomato in these new recipes you will learn through this cookbook.

The Great Southern Food Festival Cookbook is a celebration of Southern food and fun with over 500 recipes with information on 100 great events. A food festival is a wonderfully American event that happens in small towns and large cities all over the South, celebrating everything from onions to peanuts, chocolate to chowder. This collection will be both cookbook and travel guide with delicious recipes and festival information for more than 70 festivals from Virginia to Texas. Southern food and Southern parties-or rather Southern parties about Southern food-are the very best kind. Featured festivals include: Chicken and Egg Festival - Moulton, Alabama West Virginia Strawberry Festival - Buckhannon, West Virginia Bradley County Pink Tomato Festival - Warren, Arkansas Shrimp and Grits: The Wild Georgia Shrimp Festival, Jekyll Island, Georgia Suffolk Peanut Festival - Suffolk, Virginia Cornbread Festival - South Pittsburgh, TN Houston Hot Sauce Festival - Houston, Texas

A vine-ripened, juicy delight of a book from Gary Ibsen, founder of the renowned TomatoFest celebration in Carmel, California. Heirloom tomatoes are hot right now, and Ibsen gives history and cultivation information for such sweet delights as Radiator Charlie's Mortgage Lifter, Boxcar Willie's, and Aunt Ruby's Yellow Cherry, among others. With 40-plus festival standout recipes, including Mu Shu Tomato Pillows on Spicy Slaw, Baked Tomato Tart, and, of course, Old-Fashioned Fried Green Tomatoes.