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From the Americas to Australasia, from northern Europe to southern Africa, the tomato tickles the world's taste buds. Americans along devour more than twelve million tons annually of this peculiar fruit, variously considered poisonous, curative, and aphrodisiacal. In this first concerted study of the tomato in America, Andrew F. Smith separates myth from historical fact, beginning with the Salem, New Jersey, man who, in 1820, allegedly attracted spectators from hundreds of miles to watch him eat a tomato on the courthouse steps (the legend says they expected to see him die a painful death). Later, hucksters such as Dr. John Cook Bennett and the Amazing Archibald Miles peddled the tomato's pu...
This fact-filled guidebook, conveniently divided into sections by state, activity, and time of the year, offers easily accessible day and weekend trips for those living within a 200-mile radius of Richmond, Baltimore, or Washington, D.C.
This fact-filled guidebook, conveniently divided into sections by state, activity, and time of the year, offers information on easily accessible day and weekend trips for those living within a 200-mile radius of Richmond, Baltimore, or Washington, D.C. Includes a calendar of events. Lightning Print on Demand Title