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 prominent 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.
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. She lives in New Freeport, Pennsylvania.
"I found some surprising new ways to prepare this celebrated summer ingredient. . . . It takes a deliciously Southern approach to tomato cookery." -- Rachael Ray Blogs "Offers useful cooking tips, lively lessons on history, cultivation, and preserving, and variations for year-round enjoyment of the tomato." -- The Monticello Shop Blog "With her charming and informative prose, plus fifty vibrant recipes, Rubin paints a passionate portrait of the tomato." -- Simple Italy.com "[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 "[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 "A delightful series." -- Baton Rouge Advocate "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 "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 "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 "SAVOR THE SOUTH -- designed to give Dixie's most time-honored ingredients their due." -- Garden & Gun
