Tomatoes

“SAVOR THE SOUTH — designed to give Dixie’s most time-honored ingredients their due.” — Garden & Gun

“A delightful series.” — Baton Rouge Advocate

“Offers recipes that will get you through that big bumper crop of tomatoes — from green to the end of summer, and then covers uses for the canned tomatoes when fresh tomato season ends. . . . All the Southern standards are there.” — Edible Piedmont

“[A] wonderful series of little cookbooks that look at the favorite foods and culinary traditions in the American South. . . . [Rubin] delivers 50 easy-to-follow, kitchen-tested recipes for the tomato, a Southern staple.” — Baton Rouge Advocate

“If you love all things tomato, this little book is for you. . . . [Rubin’s] recipes get a dash of history and are served up with personal wit and the wisdom of a real cook.” — Observer Reporter

“[A] perfect cookbook. . . . One of the great pleasures of this compact cookbook is that Rubin, who’s from rural Southwestern, PA, is a lively and inventive writer. . . . In Tomatoes, there are recipes for every conceivable use for fresh, store-bought and canned tomatoes.” — Laura B. Weiss, Food and Things

“I found some surprising new ways to prepare this celebrated summer ingredient. . . . It takes a deliciously Southern approach to tomato cookery.” — Rachael Ray Blogs

“With her charming and informative prose, plus fifty vibrant recipes, Rubin paints a passionate portrait of the tomato.” — Simple Italy.com

“Offers useful cooking tips, lively lessons on history, cultivation, and preserving, and variations for year-round enjoyment of the tomato.” — The Monticello Shop Blog