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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]
Alexander, William, 1953- [photo, Bryan Regan; jacket desing, Anne Winslow ; lines from Robert Creeley]
Language: English
Published by Chapel Hill, NC : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2006, 2006
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st ed., 1st printing ; 288 p. ; 21 cm ; ISBN: 1565125037; 9781565125032 (hardcover); LCCN: 2005-53790 ; LC: SB320.7.N7; Dewey: 635.09747/3 ; OCLC: 61684235 ; A gardener with a philosophical bent, Alexander gives excellent advice about everything from peaches…and apples to zucchini and leeks, while asking probing questions: What do our gardens tell us about ourselves? Do we get the gardens we deserve? And why does the groundhog have to take one bite from a half a dozen tomatoes when any gardener would gladly grant him six bites of just one? ; Contents: Gentleman farmer -- Whore in the bedroom, horticulturist in the garden -- We know where you live -- One man's weed is Jean-Georges's salad -- No such thing as organic apples -- You may be smarter, but he's got more time -- Nature abhors a meadow (but loves a good fire) -- Shell-shocked: a return to the front (burner) -- Christopher Walken, gardener -- Cereal killer -- Statuary rape -- Harvest jam -- The existentialist in the garden -- The sixty-four dollar tomato -- Childbirth. Da Vinci. Potatoes. ; FINE/FINE. Book.
