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Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World

by Dan Koeppel
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World

Unpeeling banana's global journey, history, and crisis.

Dan Koeppel's "Banana" is more than a fruit's tale; it's a geopolitical thriller wrapped in a peel of cultural significance. Think of it as a global expedition that not only satisfies your hunger for historical adventures but also serves an urgent environmental message. It might just change the way you look at your morning smoothie ingredient or the power structures in global agriculture.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World

by Dan Koeppel
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ISBN: 9780452290082
Authors: Dan Koeppel
Publisher: Plume
Date of Publication: 2008-12-30
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: History, Science, Nature, Business, Food & Drink
Related Topics: Microhistory, Food and Drink, Food, Nature
Goodreads rating: 3.81
(rated by 5315 readers)

Description

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 popular fruit. In this fascinating and surprising exploration of the banana’s history, cultural significance, and endangered future, award-winning journalist Dan Koeppel gives readers plenty of food for thought. Fast-paced and highly entertaining, Banana takes us from jungle to supermarket, from corporate boardrooms to kitchen tables around the world. We begin in the Garden of Eden—examining scholars’ belief that Eve’s “apple” was actually a banana—and travel to early-twentieth-century Central America, where aptly named “banana republics” rose and fell over the crop, while the companies now known as Chiquita and Dole conquered the marketplace. 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 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.
 

Unpeeling banana's global journey, history, and crisis.

Dan Koeppel's "Banana" is more than a fruit's tale; it's a geopolitical thriller wrapped in a peel of cultural significance. Think of it as a global expedition that not only satisfies your hunger for historical adventures but also serves an urgent environmental message. It might just change the way you look at your morning smoothie ingredient or the power structures in global agriculture.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.