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The $64 Tomato: How One Man Nearly Lost His Sanity, Spent a Fortune, and Endured an Existential Crisis in the Quest for the Perfect Garden is a nonfiction book by William Alexander, published in 2006. The $64 Tomato was a nominee for Quill Award in the debut author of the year category [1] and was selected for the 2006 National Book Festival.
LC Class. PS3556.L26 F7 1987. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a 1987 novel by American author Fannie Flagg. Set in Alabama, it weaves together the past and the present through the blossoming friendship between Evelyn Couch, a middle-aged housewife, and Ninny Threadgoode, an elderly woman who lives in a nursing home.
Common mosaic of tomato (internal browning of fruit) Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) Curly top: Curtovirus: Potato virus Y Potato virus Y: Pseudo curly top Tomato pseudo-curly top virus: Tomato bushy stunt Tomato bushy stunt virus: Tomato etch Tobacco etch virus: Tomato fern leaf Cucumber mosaic virus: Tomato mosaic Tomato mosaic virus Tomato mottle
A raw tomato is 95% water, contains 4% carbohydrates, and has less than 1% each of fat and protein (see table). 100 grams (3.5 oz) of raw tomatoes supply 18 kilo calories and are a moderate source of vitamin C (17% of the Daily Value), but otherwise have low micronutrient content (table).
Ailsa Craig (originally "Balch's Ailsa Craig") is a medium-sized red variety of tomato.It was first bred in 1908 by nurseryman Alan Balch of Girvan, Scotland [1] as a cross between the varieties "Balch's Fillbasket" and "Carter's Sunrise", [2] and was introduced to market by Alexander and Brown in 1912. [3]
Table of tomatoes. Originally from Germany. Cultivated in Tennessee by Ruby Arnold. Sweet flavor with a hint of spice. Common in the United States. Includes varieties Red Ponderosa and Coustralee. Can reach up to 4 lb / 1.8 kg. in weight. High fiber. Vitamin C greater if vine ripened.
The Brandywine tomato plant has unusual potato leaf -shaped foliage, with smooth, oval, pointy tipped leaves. Its sandwich-sized fruit can grow up to 1.5 lbs (0.7 kg) and has been described as having a "great tomatoey flavor", [1] offset by an appealing acidity. It has a beefsteak tomato shape, mixed red and deep purple flesh, and can have ...
A genetically modified tomato, or transgenic tomato, is a tomato that has had its genes modified, using genetic engineering. The first trial genetically modified food was a tomato engineered to have a longer shelf life (the Flavr Savr), which was on the market briefly beginning on May 21, 1994. [1] The first direct consumption tomato was ...