Photograph by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Yesterday marked the official publication date of Barry Estabrook’s Tomatoland, and we’re lucky to have an excerpt from it today—as I’m immensely proud that we’ve been able to feature Barry’s beautifully reported and written pieces on some of the subjects we most care about at Life: sustainability, social justice, and food that tastes good.

So I’m exhorting you to buy Tomatoland (and wrote a blurb for the back, something I almost never do, to tell everybody else), and not just because it’s a gripping and shocking picture of modern-day slavery that shouldn’t exist in this country, let alone any other. Barry claimed this territory for himself in a hard-hitting narrative on the Coalition of Immokalee Workers in Gourmet, which won a James Beard award and was one of the pieces Ruth Reichl was rightly proudest of during her tenure as editor. In fact, I see from the Tomatoland page Barry has built on his site that she says in a blurb that it’s the piece she’s proudest of having published.

Read the full review at The Atlantic Life

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