madbee
excelsior🐝 kindness infinite 26 💚 she/her lover of fantasy🗡️
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October 2026
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I had honestly forgotten just how much I enjoy reading niche nonfiction until I picked this up.
I found this book delightful. It is rich with history, thought-provoking, and amusing. It detours slightly here and there, giving the reader additional fun, non-tomato related facts. It gives not only an ingeresting, well-rounded (no pun intended) history of tomatoes, but it also teaches the reader about tomato science, farming, and wider history.
I really enjoyed this book and will be thinking about what I learned for sometime. Definitely pro-tomato!🍅🍅
I’ve found that a hallmark of so many good books is that the food and drink are described in such rich detail that it makes me hungry just to read about it. Often I’ll find myself googling recipes inspired by whatever I’ve just read about or heading to the store to see try something new. I’m assuming that I’m not alone in this, so what’s your favorite meal, food, or drink that you’ve tried because you read about it or something similar in a book? Or one you’d like to try?
madbee commented...
The author, Yossi Yovel is a researcher at Tel Aviv University, and the absolute first sentence of the book mentions Israel. In solidarity with Palestine during an ongoing genocide, I’m trying not to read books that normalize Israel. Wanted to put a note for other folks doing the same.
