Review
Like your fruit locally
grown? Enjoy variety? Prefer non-GMO food?
Like bananas?
That's cognitive dissonance for you. The
banana you eat is likely from Ecuador and
identical to every other banana of its
species. Modified oft in the past, banana
growers are now trying to save it from
extinction-threatening disease - by genetic
modification.
All that and far more are in
Banana
by Dan Koeppel.
It's not the first book on the banana
(others include
Banana Cultures:
Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental
Change in Honduras and the United States
by John Soluri (2006);
Bananas: An
American History by Virginia Scott
Jenkins (2000);...
Beyond the Book
All About Bananas
Bananas may look like
they grow on trees but
in fact they grow on
plants that are related
to the lily and orchid
family.
The term 'banana
republic' was coined by
American humorist and
short story writer O.
Henry, in reference to
Honduras - "republic" in
his day being a common
euphemism for a
dictatorship.
On a number of occasions
the term 'banana
republic' has been quite
literal with the banana...
