Photo: André Baranowski, from saveur.com
Unexpected and cool.
The story is a good read, if I say so myself, especially if you’re visiting my site for the first time via my appearance this morning on Chicago Public Radio’s Worldview program this morning.
The main feature concerns the state of banana innovation. I dream of supermarkets where many delicious varieties of the fruit are sold.
The companion piece describes five alternate varieties that actually could reach our shores.
The stories appeared in the May, 2010 issue of Saveur. It was one of eight pieces the magazine published last year that received nominations.
I also wrote a book about bananas, which is now in its fourth printing.
Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman 
