Many of the tomatoes featured in Amy Goldman's "The Heirloom Tomato" are listed here for your convenience. Click on the stock number, photo space, or name for more details.
For five years, renowned grower Amy Goldman grew an amazing 500 varieties of tomatoes on her farm in New York’s Hudson Valley. Each year she narrowed here choicest selections down. The ones she liked the best were re-grown just to make sure.
Here, in 250 gorgeous photos and Goldman’s erudite, charming prose, is the cream of the crop, from glorious heirloom beefsteaks – that delicious tomato you had as a kid but can’t seem to find anymore – to exotica like the currant tomato, a pea-sized fruit with a surprisingly big flavor.
This is a philosophy of eating and conservation- something essential for those who love to cook and garden.
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Our Black Cherry Tomato is the only round, truly black cherry we've found. Early, huge clusters of 1" round, deep purple cherry tomatoes with a blackish hue are irresistibly delicious with a sweet, complex, rich and sometimes salty/smoky flavor, characteristic of the "blacks."
Very worthy of a place in the garden and kitchen. Beautiful to mix with other cherries.
The Riesentraube Tomato is a strong German heirloom. It's name means 'giant bunch of grapes".
Productive is an understatement, with up to 350 flowers per cluster, there are loads of grape like clusters, 20-40 fruits per stem, of red cherry tomatoes with a distinctive "tail" at the blossom end.
The Black Krim Tomato has green tinted flesh with a rich, clean, earthy, almost smoky flavor that delivers a sweetness with a hint of salt. The Black Krim wins taste tests every year for its deep, complex, wine flavor.
The Ananas Noire/ Black Pineapple Tomato is a most unusual tomato!
This tomato appeared in a Pineapple tomato patch and was developed and stabilized by Pascal Moreau, a horticulturist in Belgium. The sweet fruity spicy taste is reminiscent of both black and bicolor tomatoes. The flavor often changes within the same fruit!
The Black Plum Tomato is a Russian commercial variety. Tons of sweet, elongated, mahogany-hued, fat fruits with the most intense, complex tomato flavor we've found; deep and rich with a sweet, tangy aftertaste.
Consistently prolific producer of 3" dark mahogany, plum shaped tomatoes which get "blacker" in hot, sunny conditions.
The Amish Paste Tomato is a late 1800’s Amish heirloom from Lancaster, Pa via Wisconsin.
Great sauce tomato, sweet and heavy yielding. Plants are laden with whopping clusters of deep red, one pound, acorn or heart shaped fruits that have thick, sweet flesh with few seeds.
The Nebraska Wedding Tomato has beautiful 3-4" round fruits with shiny cadmium orange skin. Firm meaty yet juicy orange flesh and a well-balanced sweet/acid flavor that form in clusters with very good early yields.
Shoulders are always smooth and rarely crack. Best used fresh when flavor is crisp. Marvelous old fashioned tomato.
Due to overwhelming popularity we have sold out for this year, but this seed will be available again in 2011! A good alternative is the Costoluto Genevese Tomato.
The famous Goldman's Italian-American Tomato has ongoing production of large, red, voluptuous (large in the hip) pear shaped, paste tomatoes with exceptional flavor and few seeds. Individual tomatoes can reach one pound each. Makes one of the creamiest tomato sauces. Named by Amy Goldman for her father’s grocery store in Brooklyn after she found this at a roadside grocery store in Cernobbio, Italy.
The Costoluto Genovese Tomato is a treasured old Italian variety, having lumpy flattish convoluted 6-9 oz. fruits, absolutely delicious, with a slightly tart flavor.
Does best in hot weather but continues to produce when weather turns cool. The tomato of choice for "conserve" or tomato puree in Italy.
Aunt Ruby’s German Green Tomato is a family heirloom from Ruby Arnold, Greenville, TN. Sweet intricate fruity lime flavors and a refreshing spicy aftertaste. The most popular "green" tomato because of its complex flavors.
Good yields of colossal juicy beefsteak type tomatoes with a sweet complex lingering taste.
The Black Zebra Tomato is stunning, with perfectly round 1.5" to 2" fruits with tender, deep dark red skin beneath vertical dark green and mahogany streaks.
Opulent, rich flavor with hints of smoke and sweetness. A really delightful late season favorite for looks and taste.
Matt’s Red Wild Cherry Tomato is originally from Hidalgo, Mexico, where it grows wild.
High yields of small red cherry tomatoes with a concentrated tangy sweet delicious flavor and high sugar content. The fruits form and ripen in clusters, making it easy to pick whole clusters at one time.
Produces over the entire season, extremely easy to grow and best planted next to a fence to climb on.
Our Red Mortgage Lifter Tomato is an improved version of the famous classic that has more disease resistance and higher yields of 10-14 oz. luscious, meaty, dusky pink tomatoes with few seeds and are the perfect sandwich tomato all summer long.
The San Marzano Tomato is one of the most important commercial tomatoes of the early to mid 20th century. Considered to be the parent for almost the entire plum tomato market in the United States today.
The original plum tomato.
Has been supplanted by hybrids for larger fruit, smoother skin, more uniform appearance and ability to withstand transportation. Nothing surpasses the flavor and overall culinary performance, though.
Makes world class marinara sauce and is heavenly when oven roasted.
