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Blithe Tomato Mike Madison 192 pp (6 x 9), with b&w illustrations throughout An insider’s wry look at farmers’ market society Across America, people are escaping fluorescent-lit grocery store aisles to rediscover the fresh, seasonal offerings of the farmers’ market. A new and thriving culture has sprung up as thousands gather each weekend to pinch, poke, smell, and probe the produce—and at times each other. |
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“With a Chekhovian eye for detail, Mike Madison has assembled a fascinating group portrait of the fellow growers—endangered individualists all, eccentrics, recluses, dreamers, anarchists—who work the land of his extended neighborhood. Madison makes us appreciate not only how much mankind’s labors form landscape but also how much the land molds character—for better and worse.” “Mike Madison is a storyteller who surprises, delights, and defies superficial description. Read this book aloud and those who overhear you will either cheer or run the other way—that’s what a good book should do, and this one does it with distinctiveness!”—Gary Paul Nabhan, author of Coming Home to Eat and Why Some Like It Hot “Mike Madison is one of us—farms with humility, a fool to work so hard, hands with calluses while scratching out a good life in the earth—all the while musing about life passing before our fields.”—David Mas Masumoto, author of Epitaph for a Peach and Letters to the Valley “These words burst with flavor, vitality, and freshness. We find in these pages passion, outrage, anecdote, and deep, thought-provoking observation, all blended together by a blessedly playful intelligence.”—Annie Somerville, executive chef, Greens |
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Mike Madison lives with his wife, Dianne, in Winters, California, where they operate a small truck farm in the Sacramento Valley. His previous book, Walking the Flatlands, is available from Heyday Books. |
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