Barry Estabrook Books In Order

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Barry Estabrook is a published author.

Barry didn’t always work as a writer. When he was younger, he had his turn doing stints on a dairy farm in the Midwest as well as taking his own time being tossed all over a commercial fishing boat located off of frigid Nova Scotia. Through all of this and these experiences, he did learn a lot, and learned that writing about how the food is produced and made is actually a lot easier than producing it.

The author recounts that for ‘several blissful years’, he was receiving a steady paycheck from Gourmet magazine. Now he is busy writing for such publications and sites such as Saveur, the New York Times, OnEarth, AtlanticLife.com, and what he says is pretty much any publication that will pay him. He also notes that he blogs at politicsoftheplate.com, which was awarded the 2011 James Beard Award for the best food blog.

Barry resides on a plot of thirty acres in the state of Vermont. There he says he spends time puttering around in his own very large vegetable garden, which he notes is a great place to be if you are a writer who is procrastinating. He also tends his own small flock of laying hens, gets to make his own maple syrup, and does his best at brewing some hard cider.

He is known for writing such books as Tomatoland and Pig Tales, as well as Just Eat. He has won the James Beard Award three different times. He used to be a contributing editor at Gourmet but today is actively blogging online and enjoying his life in Vermont.

Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit is an intriguing 2011 book written by Barry Estabrook. It is a book that was called an ‘indictment of our modern agricultural system’ by The Washington Post. If you love nonfiction, enjoyed health movies such as Super Size Me, or have an interest in living healthy and all literature that goes in depth into topics like these, check out the book that the Post says continues the ‘tradition of the best muckraking journalism’.

In this book, Barry Estabrook transforms from a regular author into an investigative food journalist. He ends up showing the reader the large human and environmental cost when it comes to the fresh tomato industry, which encompasses roughly five billion dollars of revenue. Estabrook ends up tracing the supermarket tomato from where it was born in the deserts of Peru to the poor town of Immokalee, Florida, also known as the tomato capital of America.

He ends up going to the laboratories of seeds men who are attempting to develop varieties that are able to take the rigors of the agricultural business and still retain the taste of a garden tomato. He then goes to commercial growers, who are working on tens of thousands of acres. Estabrook eventually moves on to a hillside field in Pennsylvania, which is the place that he ends up meeting a farmer obsessed with them who is responsible for making delicious tomatoes available for the top restaurants in the nation.

Through the course of this book, the author is able to give us a cast of various characters who are all involved with the tomato industry in one way or another. This includes the octogenarian who has a conglomerate that is growing one of eight tomatoes that is eaten in the United States.

There is also a former Marine who leads the group that dictates the color, size, and shape of each tomato that is shipped out of Florida, as well as the attorney who has gone after human traffickers for the past decade and the Guatemalan man who decided that he wanted to come up north to get money to pay the medical bills of his parents and ended up enslaved for two years.

This is a compelling book that will have readers eagerly going through the pages to find out more. An important book that is more interesting and readable than other nonfiction works, grab a copy for yourself and get to see and know the tomato as you never have before!

Just Eat: One Reporter’s Quest for a Weight-Loss Regimen That Works is a 2021 novel by Barry Estabrook. From this bestselling author comes a book that showcases how the author himself takes on some of the most popular diets of our time, looking into the diet gurus, the advice, and the science that is behind many of the programs that shows how human should and should not be dieting. This is a book that author Ruth Reichl says is ‘essential reading’ that will end up completely changing ‘your ideas about what you should be eating’.

Barry Estabrook is an investigative journalist, someone who was often going into the doctor’s office and not getting a warm reception. He realized that at the end of the day, he pretty much just had two options available to him. He could end up taking on more medication or he could lose weight. The author ultimately ended up choosing to try to lose weight, but then had all-new things to contend with.

Looking at all of it, Estabrook found himself paralyzed by all of these options. He wondered which diet out of the many options available would help him to keep the weight off, and which of the programs would he be able to maintain over the course of time, and which of the diets would work the best out of all of them or even end up working at all.

Throughout three years, the author ended up trying the regimens behind the popular diets of the past four decades. These range from keto to paleo to gluten free and veganism, as well as Whole30, the Master Cleanse, Atkins, Weight Watchers and more. Meanwhile, they take a close look at the claims and the science as well as the people behind the fads, all while working to record his own experience physically and mentally from going along with each one.

On the way, he found out that the branded programs come from three diets. He also uncovered how losing weight in the short term can end up doing a lot of damage over the long term that may go years being undetected. This is a look at diets, what they do to us, why some work better than others, and our relationships with food that you won’t want to miss.