Smith & Hawken: 100 Heirloom Tomatoes for the American Garden
This is a book for the true tomato snob who is not content with  the ordinary red beefsteak weighing heavily on the vine at the end of  summer. Yellow, pink, green, and orange tomatoes are all part of this guide to heirloom varieties, many of which are only available through catalogs  or through an organization called the Seed Savers Exchange.Author Carolyn Male favors heirlooms that have been passed down through families, not commercially created hybrids.  She does not hesitate to  be critical, calling some varieties mealy or bland, while others send her  into epiphanies. Although she makes gestures toward guiding the novice, this is a book for either food fanatics or experts who move in the subculture of truly obsessed gardeners catering to gourmet cooks and specialty markets. Throughout  the book, enticing photographs of freshly picked heirlooms  remind the reader that grocery store tomatoes aren't really tomatoes at all, sitting sadly under fluorescent lights, losing their flavor and color. If only they had been born in a tomato snob's garden; then they would have been treated  like royalty.-–Emily White