"Banana: The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World" explores the 7,000 year history of the world's most popular fruit. Here in the U.S., we eat more bananas than apples and oranges combined. Around the world, millions of people rely on the fruit as their primary source of nutrition. The banana we eat, called the Cavendish, is threatened by an advancing, incurable disease. My book explains why the banana, ubiquitous as it is, is such a fragile fruit – and how science is struggling to save it. The biggest surprise of all is that the banana we enjoy today is not the one your grandparents grew up on. That banana was also wiped out by disease. "BANANA" explains why history may be repeating itself – and what needs to be done to prevent that.
On this blog, you'll find an eclectic mix of banana news, banana ideas, banana silliness, banana recipes, and almost every other kind of banana information. I hope you enjoy it, and I hope it will make you interested enough that you'll want to Amazon” target=”_blank”>check out my book. Thanks for visiting.
- Dan Koeppel
Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman 
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Ditto the above post, I couldn’t live without my morning banana. This book looks interesting, if that’s possible for a book about a fruit.
The banana is about the best fruit out there. I try to eat one every morning to give my day a kick start.
The banana is about the best fruit out there. I try to eat one every morning to give my day a kick start.