With 150 tempting recipes for those lush, vine-ripened, sun-warmed, fat, juicy, and ready-to-burst heirloom tomatoes, The Tomato Festival Cookbook is the landmark cookbook for everyone's favourite garden vegetable. Author Lawrence Davis-Hollander presents an exhaustive collection of everything about the tomato - from tomato lore, gardening how - to, expert advice on seed saving and preservation to selecting the right heirlooms for your garden and your kitchen. Whether you grow your own rainbow selection of heirlooms or are thinking of adding them to your garden, Davis-Hollander has the best advice on heirloom growing. Davis-Hollander has handpicked the recipes and the chefs to contribute to this preeminent tomato bible. Along with an impressive background in botany and farming, Lawrence is committed to food preservation, sustainable farming, and the rebirth of the Farmer's Market. With everything from salsas, risottos, and Chicken Nicoise to tomato tarts and sorbet, The Tomato Festival Cookbook takes the tomato to new culinary heights. For anyone who loves eating, growing, preserving or just admiring tomatoes, it is as essential to the kitchen as the tomato itself.