On opening night of the Eat Drink Read Write Festival, Foodies Book Club hosts a discussion of the book Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit. The author, investigative food journalist Barry Estabrook, leads the discussion. The book examines how and why commodity tomatoes came to be nothing more than potentially poisonous and unappealing stand-ins for the real thing and exposes the human and environmental costs associated with the $10 billion fresh tomato industry. Tuesday, September 13. Time: 6:00 p.m. Birmingham Public Library, Central Library
