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Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World

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In the vein of Mark Kurlansky’s bestselling Salt and Cod, a gripping chronicle of the myth, mystery, and uncertain fate of the world’s most well liked fruit

In this fascinating and surprising exploration of the banana’s history, cultural significance, and endangered future, award-winning journalist Dan Koeppel gives readers various food for thought. Fast-paced and highly entertaining, Banana takes us from jungle to supermarket, from corporate boardrooms to kitchen tables all over the world. We begin in the Garden of Eden—examining scholars’ belief that Eve’s “apple” was once if truth be told a banana— and shuttle to early-twentieth-century Central The usa, where aptly named “banana republics” rose and fell over the crop, whilst the companies now referred to as Chiquita and Dole conquered the marketplace. Koeppel then chronicles the banana’s path to the present, in the end—and most alarmingly—taking us to banana plantations across the globe that are being destroyed by a fast-moving blight, with no cure in sight—and to the high-tech labs where new bananas are literally being built in test tubes, in a race to save the world’s most beloved fruit.

Read Dan Koeppel’s posts on the Penguin Blog.

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