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Can I read Aunt Ruby's Green Tomato on EtoBox?
Aunt Ruby's Green Tomato by Hathaway Landis, Samantha Reiff is a health book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Aunt Ruby's Green Tomato about?
Not only are we supposed to eat our vegetables, we are now supposed to know our vegetables as well. That is the project a professor of nutrition at a small college assigns himself, to get out of his office and into the field to dig deeper into the reality behind the ingredients in his summer salad. Using the up-close-and-personal approach, he follows a solitary vegetable (pardon, fruit) from seed to harvest on a nearby small farm. With the help of two students, he adopts and then chronicles on film the life of a single tomato plant over the course of a growing season. After visiting a small tomato seed company in western North Carolina, he learns of a little-known heirloom tomato, Aunt Ruby's German Green, and adds another investigation (and student) to uncover the story behind a woman's lifelong secret backyard tomato treasure. Still wrestling with an aversion to tomatoes from childhood, he and his graduate student and coauthor, Samantha Reiff, tell a tale of two very different varieties one a typical red hybrid and the other an obscure green-when-ripe heirloom who end up competing for his affection. What starts out as a relatively straightforward plan to learn more about where hi
Who reads Aunt Ruby's Green Tomato?
It is typically read by readers building habits, skills, productivity or wellbeing.
Common subject areas: self-improvement, productivity, wellness.
- Author
- Hathaway Landis, Samantha Reiff
- Publisher
- CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781514787793
- Category
- health
- Rating
- 5 / 5 (5 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14