2016-11-08
WIERINGERMEER - The Netherlands is one of the world's largest exporters of tomatoes and tomato seeds. Journalist Annemieke Hendriks follows the life of the tomato, from birth to the plate, in the Netherlands, Spain, Germany, Romania, Hungary and other European countries.
On her search Hendriks writes the stories and experiences of tomato professionals, such as growers, taste-testers and biotechnologists, pickers, politicians and lobbyists, seed breeders, traders and eco-activists. She asks critical questions about the rather absurd world in which she ends up. For example, can we still talk about a Dutch, Romanian or German tomato? Why do millions of almost identical tomatoes cross each other on the European continent every day? How healthy or dangerous can a tomato be?
(Foto © sylvar)
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€3,000 allocated on 21/11/2013ID
FPD/2013/1072Grant
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BOOK (in Dutch)
- Title: De tomaat
Subtitle: De tomaat en de bizarre wereld van vers voedsel
Author: Annemieke Hendriks
Publisher: Nieuw Amsterdam
ISBN: 9789046819401
Pages: 356
Date of publication: 1 december 2016
BOOK (In German)
- Title: Tomaten
Subtitle: Die wahre Identität unseres Frischgemüses. Eine ReportageAuthor: Annemieke Hendriks
Publisher: BeBra Verlag
ISBN: 978-3-89809-139-8
Pages: 288 Seiten
Date of publication: 2017
MAGAZINE
- 'Eigen tomaat eerst? Had je gedacht' (MO*, 3/9/2014)
ONLINE
- Tomatenboek is feest van herkenning (Groenten en Fruit, 2/12/2016)
- Hoe een Nederlands familiebedrijf het opneemt tegen Monsanto en Bayer (De Correspondent, 1/12/2016)
- Italië en Spanje serveren ons spotgoedkope slaventomaten. Gesponsord door de EU (MO*, 1/12/2016)
- De tomaat en de bizarre wereld van vers voedsel (Groentennieuws, 1/12/2016)
- 'Ein Niederländer auf den Spuren seines ungarischen Vaters – Sandor Kosdi in Hajdúdorog' (IWM, 1/12/2014)
- 'Klein-Holland im Oderbruch. Walter und Frank Schütz in Manschnow' (IWM, 2/10/2014)
- 'Daheim an der Nordseeküste. Helga Kosdi-van Spronsen und ihre Odyssee' (IWM, 3/10/2014)
- 'Der Untergang des regionalen Gartenbaus – Wo ist es nur, das Frischgemüse für Berlin?' (IWM, 6/10/2014)
- De tomaat bezit bovenal een Nederlands paspoort (NRC, 19/05/2017)
- Wasserbomben aus Amsterdam - (Faz.net, 28/10/2017)
- "Wir nennen es das rote Gold" - (Zeit.de, 15/10/2017)
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