Banana

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9780452290082 Author(s): Dan Koeppel Format: Paperback Language: English Year: 2008 Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc Pages: 304

Description: In the vein of Mark Kurlansky's bestselling Salt and Cod, a gripping chronicle of the myth, mystery, and uncertain fate of the worldA?s most popular fruit In this fascinating and surprising exploration of the bananaA?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 EdenA?examining scholarsA? belief that EveA?s A?appleA? was actually a bananaA? and travel to early-twentieth-century Central America, where aptly named A?banana republicsA? rose and fell over the crop, while the companies now known as Chiquita and Dole conquered the marketplace. Koeppel then chronicles the bananaA?s path to the present, ultimatelyA?and most alarminglyA?taking us to banana plantations across the globe that are being destroyed by a fast-moving blight, with no cure in sightA?and to the high-tech labs where new bananas are literally being built in test tubes, in a race to save the worldA?s most beloved fruit.

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