Download or read book Tomatoland written by Barry Estabrook and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2012 IACP Award Winner in the Food Matters category Supermarket produce sections bulging with a year-round supply of perfectly round, bright red-orange tomatoes have become all but a national birthright. But in Tomatoland, which is based on his James Beard Award-winning article, "The Price of Tomatoes," investigative food journalist Barry Estabrook reveals the huge human and environmental cost of the $5 billion fresh tomato industry. Fields are sprayed with more than one hundred different herbicides and pesticides. Tomatoes are picked hard and green and artificially gassed until their skins acquire a marketable hue. Modern plant breeding has tripled yields, but has also produced fruits with dramatically reduced amounts of calcium, vitamin A, and vitamin C, and tomatoes that have fourteen times more sodium than the tomatoes our parents enjoyed. The relentless drive for low costs has fostered a thriving modern-day slave trade in the United States. How have we come to this point? Estabrook traces the supermarket tomato from its birthplace in the deserts of Peru to the impoverished town of Immokalee, Florida, a.k.a. the tomato capital of the United States. He visits the laboratories of seedsmen trying to develop varieties that can withstand the rigors of agribusiness and still taste like a garden tomato, and then moves on to commercial growers who operate on tens of thousands of acres, and eventually to a hillside field in Pennsylvania, where he meets an obsessed farmer who produces delectable tomatoes for the nation's top restaurants. Throughout Tomatoland, Estabrook presents a who's who cast of characters in the tomato industry: the avuncular octogenarian whose conglomerate grows one out of every eight tomatoes eaten in the United States; the ex-Marine who heads the group that dictates the size, color, and shape of every tomato shipped out of Florida; the U.S. attorney who has doggedly prosecuted human traffickers for the past decade; and the Guatemalan peasant who came north to earn money for his parents' medical bills and found himself enslaved for two years. Tomatoland reads like a suspenseful whodunit as well as an expose of today's agribusiness systems and the price we pay as a society when we take taste and thought out of our food purchases.
Download or read book Tomato Production Processing and Technology written by WA Gould and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-12-09 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete guide to the tomato industry, including over 50 full colour photos on tomato diseases and other vital elements. It is a book needed by all tomato and tomato products packers, growers and anyone involved or interested in packing, processing and production of tomatoes and tomato products.
Download or read book Tomato Health Management written by R. Michael Davis and published by APS Press the American Phytopathological Society. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tomato Health Management is a comprehensive, cross-disciplinary guide to the healthy production of both fresh-market and processing tomatoes. This book emphasizes management strategies to address challenges at all stages of production - from seedling production through postharvest handling. Those strategies cover disease and pest control, cultural practices such as irrigation and fertilization, nutritional and other abiotic disorders, and postharvest quality. It provides science-based knowledge in an accessible format that will be useful to anyone in the tomato-production industry.
Download or read book Greenhouse Tomatoes Change the Dynamics of the North American Fresh Tomato Industry written by Roberta L. Cook and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the greenhouse tomatoes industry and its effects on the fresh tomatoes industry in North America.
Download or read book Status of the Florida Tomato Industry written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Risk Management and Specialty Crops and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Small Business Problems in the Tomato Industry written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Tomato Industry of the Arkansas Valley written by H. H. Griffin and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Tomato Industry of the Arkansas Valley written by Harvey H. Griffin and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Small Business Problems in the Tomato Industry Hearing Before the Special Subcommittee of 87 1 Pursuant to H Res 46 written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on Survey of the Canning Tomato Industry with Suggestions for Improvement written by Fred L. Yaw and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tomato Processing by Products written by Mejdi Jeguirim and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to being served as a fresh vegetable, tomato is also consumed in the form of various processed products, such as paste, juice, sauce, puree and ketchup. Generally, in processing these products, different by-products including peels, seeds and pulps are produced. The rational disposal of Tomato waste represents not only a resource problem but also an environmental and economic one for the Tomato Processing Industry. Tomato Processing By-Products: Sustainable Applications indicates the alternative sustainable solutions for the recovery of tomato processing by-products as a source for animal feed and valuable components as well as their possible approaches for value-added utilization in energy, environmental and agricultural applications. Aimed at agricultural or food engineers who work in the Tomato processing industry and are seeking to improve their by-products management by actively utilizing them in effective applications. - Includes tomato processing by-products, their quantification and classification - Approaches tomato waste for animal feeding - Brings successful case study of tomato processing by-products valorization
Download or read book Tomato Growing and Canning Industry in Scott County written by Henry Albert Jones and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Processing Tomato Industries of Greece Portugal and Spain written by Ronald Y. Uyeshiro and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tomato Plant Culture written by J. Benton Jones Jr. and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2007-08-03 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While tomatoes continue to be one of the most widely grown plants, the production and distribution of tomato fruits have been changing worldwide. Smaller, flavorful tomatoes are becoming more popular than beefsteak tomatoes, greenhouse-grown tomatoes have entered the marketplace, and home gardeners are using the Internet to obtain information for g
Download or read book Tomato Chemistry Industrial Processing and Product Development written by Sebastiano Porretta and published by Royal Society of Chemistry. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tomato is one of the most widespread horticultural species in the world. Used in a wide and diverse range of forms, from being suitable for consumption fresh to use as a manufactured derivative, e.g. sauce, peeled, juices, ketchup, etc., it is hard to imagine tomato-free cuisine. With many national traditions and dishes based on this culinary vegetable, it is said to be one of the symbols of Mediterranean cuisine. This book looks at the many changes that are taking place in the tomato market and industry; tomato producers are combining tomato origin, tradition, territory, quality, service and supply chain to adapt to the needs of the new consumers. It deals with the topics that are pertinent to the current industry: rheology and mechanical properties; origin determination; innovation and new product development; market research; sensory and consumer preference; quality control and new methods; volatile compounds and aroma; non-conventional processing technologies; functional and healthy compounds; waste and by-product valorization; and sustainability and traditional products. Providing a comprehensive overview of the actual tomato industry; how it ensures product authenticity; new product development, particularly focused on consumer demands; the presence of bio-active substances able to prevent chronic diseases (carotenoids, phenolic and flavonoids); and how to convert industrial waste into added value by-products; this book will appeal to professionals and food product developers.
Download or read book The Winter Fresh Tomato Industry written by John R. Brooker and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tomato Production written by Paul Work and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
