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    Carver's Tomatoes
    Carver's Tomatoes
    Carver's Tomatoes
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    Carver's Tomatoes

    By Ann Chambers

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    "Carver’s Tomatoes" includes all of George Washington Carver’s 115 Tomato Recipes updated for today’s cooks. These were originally published in 1918 when Carver ran the Agriculture Department at the Tuskegee Institute under Booker T. Washington.
    A brief biography of Carver is included to highlight his historical significance. He was born a slave but was both an educator and a celebrity in adulthood. In his time, he was a renowned Botanist.
    His recipes remain relevant through their use of common pantry and garden ingredients. Most of these recipes are quite inexpensive to prepare and they are generally quite flexible, allowing the cook to create dishes to serve any number of people.
    The recipes are wide-ranging, from basic ketchups to soups and salads to dinner entrees.
    These recipes should prove particularly helpful to cooks with a garden, since there are a good number of recipes featuring green tomatoes, uses for small ripe tomatoes, as well as sauces such as his Tomato Soy, several ketchups, and large batches of tomato sauces meant to be preserved.
    Many of Carver’s recipes use only basic seasoning such as salt and pepper, so they have been updated to include suggestions for more diverse spice blends. His cooking methods and utensils, likewise, were basic so some cooking instructions have been updated for the use of modern appliances.
    For the reader’s convenience, the Table of Contents lists each recipe by Carver’s number and title and is linked to the full recipe in the book.
    A table of measurements and equivalents follows the recipes.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAnn Chambers
    Release dateJun 1, 2011
    ISBN9781458171085
    Carver's Tomatoes
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    Ann Chambers

    Ann Chambers is a journalist, author, and long-time foodie. She worked in a variety of restaurants as a teen and college student, developing an interest in food and cooking. Semi-retired after 20 years working full time as a reporter, editor, and researcher, she is now busy experimenting in the kitchen and tending the garden. Over the past year she has compiled 6 new e-cookbooks, including 25 Quick & Easy Quesadilla Recipes, 35 Quick & Easy HCG Recipes, and her latest offering Gourmet Ice Pops for Kids and Adults.

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      Carver's Tomatoes - Ann Chambers

      Introduction

      Despite being known today primarily for his extensive efforts to popularize peanuts as a crop and a food, George Washington Carver also loved tomatoes. He encouraged farmers to grow them and everyone to eat them, even issuing an extensive agricultural bulletin that included 115 tomato-based recipes in 1918.

      This book updates Carver’s original recipes, which were mostly one paragraph each, explaining the preparation of a dish. The recipes have been expanded to include an ingredient list at the beginning, Carver’s paragraph discussing preparation of the dish, and editor’s notes following to explain potentially unfamiliar terms or ingredients, suggest additional modern seasonings or cooking ideas, and sometimes to fill in gaps in the recipes themselves.

      Biography of George Washington Carver

      George Washington Carver was an amazing, iconic American. Born a slave, he pursued education and taught at the Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama under Booker T. Washington. A friend of Henry Ford, he was quite an inventor in his own way. Carver is best remembered for his extensive work popularizing peanuts as a crop and important food item for poor southern farmers. However, he also worked extensively to popularize tomatoes, including creating these 115 recipes which use them as primary ingredients.

      Carver’s exact birth date is unknown, but is believed to be about July 12, 1864 near what is now Diamond, Missouri. His mother, Mary, belonged to a man named Moses Carter who was himself a German immigrant. Young George suffered from whooping cough and respiratory disease which left him permanently frail. His mother and sister both died from the whooping cough. Moses Carver recognized that George was unable to work as a field hand and allowed him to wander the fields studying the plants. George became known as the Plant Doctor.

      Education

      After slavery was abolished by the Emancipation Proclamation in 1865, Moses Carver and his wife Susan raised George, with Susan teaching George to read and write. George attended school in Neosho, Missouri because Diamond’s schools did not accept black students. When he was 13, he moved to Fort Scott, Kansas to attend high school, but graduated from Minneapolis, Kansas. While in high school, he lived with foster families who took him in.

      After high school, he started a laundry business in Olathe, Kansas, but began sending letters to colleges. After a couple of false starts, he was accepted to and attended Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa. He was the school’s second African-American student. He later transferred to Iowa State Agricultural College, which is now Iowa State University, as its first black student. Carver also became the college’s first black faculty member. It was during his time at Iowa State that Carver began using the name George Washington Carver to avoid confusion with another George Carver at the school.

      Carver stayed with Iowa State to pursue his master’s degree. He then worked as a researcher at the Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station from 1894 to 1896.

      Tuskegee Institute

      His work in Iowa gained him recognition as a botanist and an invitation from Booker T. Washington to lead the Agriculture Department at the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, which Washington had founded five years previous. Carver accepted and stayed at Tuskegee for 47 years. The name of the institution was later changed to the Tuskegee University.

      Much of Carver’s work at Tuskegee, especially in the later years, focused on alternative crops for crop rotation in the South. Extensive cotton farming in the region depleted soils. Carver is noted for his work promoting peanuts, sweet potatoes and tomatoes in particular. Rotating legumes such as peanuts, soybeans or cowpeas replaced the nitrogen cotton took from the soils. Legumes and tomatoes also created cash crops for the farmers.

      Carver worked to create plant products but unfortunately did not write down the formulas so they could not be made by others. He is famed for the many recipes and innovative uses he created for various plants including 300 applications for peanuts, 118 for sweet potatoes (many were dyes) and 115 recipes for tomatoes.

      Frugality

      Carver is known for his frugality, and he saved most of his salary from Tuskegee since his room and board was provided by the institute. His frugality can be seen in his extensive recipes for the crops he was promoting. He found many ways to use and enjoy the crops, and some uses for the plants (such as dyes).

      His frugal outlook is actually very much aligned with today’s society as more people are planting home gardens and shopping at farmer’s markets in an effort to provide nutritious, affordable, locally grown food to their families. Gardeners must always look to expand their recipe lists to make good use

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