THE FRUIT IS IN CRISIS. A killer disease has spread across half the planet, threatening to wipe out the fruit that we eat. At the same time, varieties of bananas that millions – across Africa, Asia, and the Pacific – depend upon as part of their daily diet are also menaced. Why? Because the world’s oldest, most popular fruit is a singularly weak, singularly odd organism. What’s being done? The biggest banana companies have said little and acted less. In labs across the world, however, scientists are racing to find new ways to breed the fruit, to make it stronger – even as their counterparts comb the planet’s most remote jungles and forests, searching for hidden and unknown varieties, one of which might hold the key to saving our – and the world’s – favorite fruit.
That’s what my book is about. And this blog. Plus pudding recipes.
