![]() 27, 2007 Nature and science writer Koeppel ( To See Every Bird on Earth, 2005) chronicles the banana’s history, from early cultivation to modern popularization, and suggests ways to save it from extinction. Today's yellow banana, the Cavendish, is increasingly threatened by such a blight, and there's no cure in sight.īanana combines a pop-science journey around the globe, a fascinating tale of an iconic American business enterprise, and a look into the alternately tragic and hilarious banana subculture (one does exist) - ultimately taking us 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. BANANA THE FATE OF THE FRUIT THAT CHANGED THE WORLD by Dan Koeppel RELEASE DATE: Dec. A seedless fruit with a unique reproductive system, every banana is a genetic duplicate of the next and therefore susceptible to the same blights. Rich cultural lore surrounds the fruit: In ancient translations of the Bible, the "apple" consumed by Eve is actually a banana.īut the biggest mystery about the banana today is whether it will survive. But for all its ubiquity, the banana is surprisingly mysterious nobody knows how bananas evolved or exactly where they originated. In others parts of the world, bananas are what keep millions of people alive. Americans eat more bananas than apples and oranges combined. ![]() ![]() To most people a banana is a banana: a simple yellow fruit. ![]()
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