Tomatoes come in many types and flavors. If you love this fruit and enjoy cooking with it, why not try out one of these top three tomato cookbooks. The recipe ideas along with corresponding illustrations are truly spectacular.

1. The Too Many Tomatoes Cookbook: Classic & Exotic Recipes from around the World – Brian Yarvin

The author is an instructor of food, and commercial photography at the Washington School of Photography. He has authored a truly wonderful tomato cookbook that is filled with striking illustrations and equally delightful dishes. It has some great recipes and ideas that you will thoroughly enjoy trying out in the kitchen. This cookbook is ideal for cooks of all levels.

2. The Heirloom Tomato Cookbook - Mimi Luebbermann

Every tomato lover is going to agree that there's nothing like the flavor of a sun-ripened heirloom tomato and this prettily photographed book is a treasure trove for a tomato lover. First there are the recipes: 50 in all, presented by such well known food names as One Market, Caprial's Bistro, Jimtown Store, and DaVero Olive Oil. Ideal for brunch, cocktails, or dinner, tomatoes are showcased in such toothsome dishes as Gazpacho with Cucumber Salsa Verde, Cheese and Pesto Fondue with Tomato-Foccacia Skewers, and Grilled Sea Bass with Lemon-Oregano, Tomato Relish. Paired with each dish is a wine recommended by Kendall-Jackson, Then there's the photographic glossary of the top 25 heirloom types, elaborate cultivation information, and a helpful source list of seeds and plants to attract those who want to eat their fruit and grow it too. Add to this, advice on choosing and storing tomatoes and a concise history, and you have a book as exciting as the tomato it rejoices.

3. The Heirloom Tomato: From Garden to Table: Recipes, Portraits, and History of the World's Most Beautiful Fruit – Amy Goldman

Here, in 250 gorgeous photos and Goldman’s intellectual charming prose, is the best of the lot, from superb heirloom beefsteaks – that scrumptious tomato you had as a child but can’t seem to find anymore – to exotica like the currant tomato, a pea-sized fruit with an astonishingly great flavor. Along with the photos are profiles of the tomatoes, filled with enthralling facts on their history and provenance; a segment of more than 50 delicious recipes; and a master gardener’s directions to growing your own. More than just a loving look at one of the world's great edibles, this is an idea of eating and conservation between covers — an appealing book for anyone who loves to garden or loves to eat.

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