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- Book Title
- $64 Tomato : How One Man Nearly Lost His Sanity, Spent a Fortune, and Endured an Existential Crisis in the Quest for the Perfect Garden
- Publication Name
- The $64 Tomato
- Title
- The $64 Tomato
- Subtitle
- How One Man Nearly Lost His Sanity, Spent a Fortune, and Endured
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 1565125576
- EAN
- 9781565125575
- ISBN
- 9781565125575
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Gardening, Humor
- Topic
- Vegetables, Personal Memoirs, General, Essays & Narratives
- Release Date
- 02/03/2007
- Release Year
- 2007
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 11.1 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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Product Information
William Alexander had a simple dream of having a vegetable garden and small orchard in his backyard. It was a dream that would lead to life-and-death battles with groundhogs, webworms, and weeds; midnight expeditions in the dead of winter to dig up fresh thyme; skirmishes with neighbors who feed the vermin (i.e., deer); the near electrocution of the tree man; and the pity of his wife and children. When Alexander decided to run a cost-benefit analysis, adding up everything from the Havahart animal trap ($60) to the Velcro tomato wraps ($5) to the steel edging ($1,200), then amortizing it over the life of his garden, it came as quite a shock to learn that it cost him a staggering $64 to grow each tomato. A gardener with an existential bent, Alexander gives excellent advice about everything from peaches to leeks, while tackling such questions as What do our gardens tell us about ourselves? Do we get the gardens we deserve? And why does the groundhog have to take one bite from half a dozen tomatoes when any gardener would gladly grant him six bites of just one?
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
ISBN-10
1565125576
ISBN-13
9781565125575
eBay Product ID (ePID)
57150712
Product Key Features
Book Title
$64 Tomato : How One Man Nearly Lost His Sanity, Spent a Fortune, and Endured an Existential Crisis in the Quest for the Perfect Garden
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Vegetables, Personal Memoirs, General, Essays & Narratives
Publication Year
2007
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Gardening, Humor
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
11.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Reviews
" Gardening as extreme sport. . . . Engaging, well paced and informative." -- The New York Times Book Review, " A wry memoir in which every reader who's spent way more to grow a plant than he could purchase it for at the supermarket will recognize his own successes, failures and foibles." -- San Francisco Chronicle, Both an inspiration and a cautionary tale for anyone who has ever looked at a tomato and thought, I could grow that!"--Life magazine, [A] hilarious horticultural memoir.... Alexander's slightly poisoned paradise manages to impart an existential lesson on the interconnectedness of nature and the fine line between nurturing and killing., A wry memoir in which every reader who's spent way more to grow a plant than he could purchase it for at the supermarket will recognize his own successes, failures and foibles., Both an inspiration and a cautionary tale for anyone who has everlooked at a tomato and thought, I could grow that!, "A wry memoir in which every reader who's spent way more to grow a plant than he could purchase it for at the supermarket will recognize his own successes, failures and foibles."--San Francisco Chronicle, "Gardening as extreme sport. . . . Engaging, well paced and informative."--The New York Times Book Review, The engaging tale of one man's pursuit of the perfect kitchen garden, from its original construction, fraught with delays and construction troubles, to his cost-benefit analysis that reveals each tomato he raised set him back $64... .This enjoyable book, laced with humor and Alexander's garden philosophy, is highly recommended.", " A refreshing take on the city-mouse-turns-country-mouse-and-lives-to-tell genre . . . Alexander's ability to elevate and expand his experience . . . reminds us that we have little control over the places obsession takes us-- even the ones that seem most innocuous, such as a simple backyard vegetable patch." -- "Newsday"
Table of Content
Contents ---------------- Prologue: Gentleman Farmer 1 Whore in the Bedroom, Horticulturist in the Garden 3 We Know Where You Live 21 One Man's Weed Is Jean-Georges's Salad 47 No Such Thing as Organic Apples 75 You May Be Smarter, But He's Got More Time 96 Nature Abhors a Meadow (But Loves a Good Fire) 131 Shell-Shocked: A Return to the Front (Burner) 146 Christopher Walken, Gardener 162 Cereal Killer 186 Statuary Rape 208 Harvest Jam 220 The Existentialist in the Garden 238 The $64 Tomato 247 Childbirth. Da Vinci. Potatoes. 256 Acknowledgments 267 Suggested Reading 269 Recipes for the Paperback Edition 271
Intended Audience
Trade
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Yes
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