Tasteless Tomatoes: Tomatoland Or How Our Most Alluring Fruit Was Destroyed

Reader Contribution by Hank Will and Editor-In-Chief
Published on March 28, 2011
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You walk into the grocery store mid winter, spy those perfectly smooth and red tasteless tomatoes and instantly engage in a visceral emotional battle to buy a package. You pick up the loveliest of those tasteless tomatoes and place it below your nose, inhaling deeply &ndash; is that the scent of tomato or is that the memory of last summer&rsquo;s fruit you detect? No matter, you so crave the tomato&rsquo;s potential for culinary complexities that in your mind you&rsquo;ve already sliced that tasteless tomato and applied it to a sandwich or chunked it atop an out-of-season salad. And then you bite into it &ndash; Blech!
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<p>In investigative food journalist <a title=”Barry Estabrook&rsquo;s” href=”http://politicsoftheplate.com/?page_id=2″ target=”_blank”>Barry Estabrook&rsquo;s</a>&nbsp;upcoming and quite possibly greatest work, <a title=”Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit ” href=”http://politicsoftheplate.com/?page_id=831″ target=”_blank”>
<em>Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit</em>

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