Easily the most artfully beautiful vegetable book I've ever seen, HEIRLOOM FRUITS AND VEGETABLES (Thames & Hudson, $50),comes from the photographer Clay Perry, who was so dismayed by a report that the European Union had lost a vast percentage of its traditional varieties that he decided to enlist his artistic talents in the service of activism.
You see, with heirloom seeds, as opposed to modern hybrids, you can save seeds from each season's harvest so that you have a new batch of seeds to sow the following spring.
A few months ago, though, when I saw dried heirloom hominy for sale online at Rancho Gordo, I bought some.
I don't think I've ever seen an heirloom tomato faked -- it either is or it isn't.
If the bill passes the lower house, as expected, Mexico will for the first time in 75 years give up an oil monopoly that many of its people see as a national heirloom.
No one wants to see Japan's industrial heirlooms vanish.
During the recent Pippin harvest, I stopped at Vintage Virginia Apples, a North Garden farm specializing in heirlooms, to see Tom Burford, 68, an orchard consultant whose family has been growing fruit since the early 18th century.
Antiques Roadshow is a blank slate for the stoner mind, a way for you to lazily exercise your imagination and see some truly beautiful heirlooms, trash, and everything in between.
"I was walking down Avenue B around 10 p.m., and I saw these gorgeous heirloom tomatoes on the sidewalk," she said.
