Why I wrote "Souper Tomatoes: The Story of America's Favorite Food."

I love eating tomatoes and my family has grown them for years, but my initial interest in writing about them stemmed from an academic pursuit. While researching the history of food, I found that no one had written a history of the tomato. I discovered that almost everything presented as history was inaccurate or misleading. The more real historical material I unearthed, the more I found that the tomato's real history was a great story, much more fascinating than the oft-repeated inaccurate stories regurgitated in magazines and newspapers. Anyway, to make a long story short, I fell in love with tomato history?

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