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Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
by Dan Koeppel
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Banana The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World In the vein of Mark Kurlanskys bestselling Salt and Cod a gripping chronicle of the myth mystery and uncertain fate of the world’s most popular fruit In this fascinating and surprising exploration of the banana’s history cultural significance and endangered future awardwinning journalist Dan Koeppel gives readers plenty of food for thought Banana The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World by Banana The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World To most people a banana is a banana a simple yellow fruit Americans eat more bananas than apples and oranges combined In others parts of the world bananas are what keep millions of people alive To most people a banana is a banana a simple yellow fruit Banana The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World by Banana The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World by Dan Koeppel In the vein of Mark Kurlanskys bestselling Salt and Cod a gripping chronicle of the myth mystery and uncertain fate of the world’s most popular fruit Banana The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World Meetup Koeppel then chronicles the banana’s path to the present ultimately—and most alarmingly—taking us to banana plantations across the globe that are being destroyed by a fastmoving blight with no cure in sight—and to the hightech labs where new bananas are literally being built in test tubes in a race to save the world’s most beloved fruit Banana The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World Banana The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World Thanks to the building of the railroad through Costa Rica by the turn of the century the United Fruit company flourished in Central America its tentacles extending into all facets of government and industry toppling “banana republics” and igniting labor wars Banana The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World Dan Banana The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World is a lively and informative history recommended to anyone curious about the political and agricultural background to one of the worlds most important food plants Banana The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World Dan Banana The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World A seedless fruit with a unique reproductive system every banana is a genetic duplicate of the next and therefore susceptible to the same blights Todays yellow banana the Cavendish is increasingly threatened by such a blight—and theres no cure in sight
