as our new release of the week: Blithe Tomato. Mike Madison runs a small truck farm in the Sacramento Valley. He serves up a slice of life from California’s thriving farmer’s market culture, the thousands of folks who gather each weekend to pinch, poke, smell, and probe the produce—and at times each other. “We find in these pages passion, outrage, anecdote, and deep, thought-provoking observation, all blended together by a blessedly playful intelligence,” says Annie Somerville, executive chef of San Francisco’s Greens restaurant.
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