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Barry Estabrook

Barry Estabrook is an investigative food journalist who spent time in Peru researching his book Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit. His most recent book is Pig Tales: An Omnivore’s Quest for Sustainable Meat.

Taken by ship to North America and Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries, the tiny fruit gave rise to all the many tomato varieties enjoyed today.

Why Is This Wild, Pea-Sized Tomato So Important?

Native to northern Peru and southern Ecuador, this tiny and rapidly vanishing tomato boasts outsized influence on world gastronomy