Elaine’s Tomato Bibliography and Resources

Tomato Bibliography

Starred (*) books are available through the Sonoma County Library system. Other books are in WorldCat and may be available for interlibrary loan through your local library.

*Albert, Stephen, The Kitchen Garden Growers Guide, Booksurge, 2008.

*Albert, Stephen, Tomato Growers Answer Book, Green Wagon, 2019.

*Creasy, Rosalind, Edible Heirloom Garden, Tuttle Publishing, 1999.

*Goldman, Amy, The Heirloom Tomato from Garden to Table, Bloomsbury, New York, 2008.

Ibsen, Gary, The Great Tomato Book, Ten Speed Press, Berkeley, 1999.

*Le Houllier, Craig, Epic Tomatoes, Storey Publishing, North Adams, Massachusetts, 2015.

*Peirce, Pam, Golden Gate Gardening (3^rd edition) Sasquatch Books, Seattle, 2010.

*Male, Carolyn J., One Hundred Heirlooms for the American Garden, Workman Publishing, New York, 1999.

*McGee, Rose Marie Nichols & Maggie Stuckey, The Bountiful Container, Workman Publishing, New York, 2002

Smith, Andrew F, The Tomato in America: Early History, Culture and Cookery, University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, 1994.

*Weaver, William Woyes, Heirloom Vegetable Garden, Holt & Company, New York, 1997.

Other Resources and Presentation Picture Credits

Many tomato books are available in e-book form from Hoopla Digital (through Sonoma County Library) including Pomodori: A History of the Tomato in Italy by David Gentilcore (2010) and books by Rosalind Creasy.

Websites with solid information:

Tomatoville Gardening Forum

Tatianna’s Tomato Base

Picture credits: Tomato Timeline; Vegetable Research Information Center; History of the Tomato; University of California, Davis.

Prepared by Elaine Walter, April 2021