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	<title>Dan Koeppel&#039;s Blog &#187; Latest Book News</title>
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		<title>Read my article on Panama Disease in &quot;The Scientist&quot;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most controversial part of my book is my assertion that biotech is key to saving the banana. I came by this assertion with a lot of difficulty &#8211; initially believing that most genetic engineering in our food supply was a bad thing. But, as usual, the issue isn&#8217;t black and white. With bananas, the shade of gray is especially green. Read the piece here.]]></description>
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		<title>How Many Books, including mine, have the words &quot;Changed the World&quot; in their title?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 11:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[963 in nonfiction, according to Amazon. (&#8220;Banana&#8221; is number nine.)]]></description>
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		<title>Guest-blogging at Penguin</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All this week. More consumer and publishing-oriented banana information, as well as a couple of &#8220;out-takes&#8221; from the book (director&#8217;s cuts? Who knew? Link.)]]></description>
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		<title>Ten Questions about the book, answered at Borders online</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From an interview I did back in December. Learn about slipping on banana peels, extinction, and fruity folklore here.]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Globe says Banana is &quot;compelling,&quot; &quot;fascinating,&quot; &quot;disturbing.&quot;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 09:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A really good review by Ralph Ranalli in the Boston Globe, January 3: &#8220;Thanks to Dan Koeppel, I&#8217;ll never walk through the produce aisle the same way again. Until I read his new book, &#8220;Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World,&#8221; I had never really wondered why there were myriad varieties of apple &#8211; Royal Gala, Granny Smith, Red Delicious, Macoun, McIntosh, etc. &#8211; yet just one monolithic, curved sweet yellow fruit labeled simply &#8220;bananas.&#8221; (Plantains don&#8217;t count; they&#8217;re green and you have to cook them before you eat them.) The reason, it turns out, is that the banana as we know it is a worldwide poster child for bio-nondiversity. Known as the Cavendish, the bananas sold in my local supermarket in Watertown are virtual genetic duplicates of the ones sold at my sister&#8217;s greengrocer in Los Angeles and at food markets in Tokyo, Paris, and Rio de Janeiro. The Cavendish is grown everywhere from Central America to New Guinea to India to the Caribbean to Southeast Asia. In &#8220;Banana,&#8221; Koeppel, a longtime outdoors and adventure writer, weaves a multifaceted story about how the fruit&#8217;s unique nature has allowed it to become a worldwide food staple and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I have been asked&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:41:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether or not I will wear a banana costume to readings (next: Vroman&#8217;s Bookstore Pasadena, CA, January 10). The answer is probably not. But if you wear one, I&#8217;ll give you a free book. Here&#8217;s a link to over 60 different yellow fruit suits to choose from.]]></description>
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		<title>Kirkus Reviews: Banana is a &quot;lively, well-modulated survey&quot;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They&#8217;re right&#8230;the book does have a lot of information crammed into it&#8230; &#8220;Nature and science writer Koeppel (To See Every Bird on Earth, 2005) chronicles the banana&#8217;s history, from early cultivation to modern popularization, and suggests ways to save it from extinction. Expanded from an article originally published in Popular Science, the narrative covers the fruit&#8217;s biblical roots (that forbidden treat Eve plucked may not have been an apple), the history of exploitative &#8220;banana republics&#8221; and the fruit&#8217;s present precarious state. Ancient hunter-gatherers probably ate the subterranean part of the banana plant, the corm; the wild fruit, itself was inedible, with rock-hard seeds. Cultivation of mutated forms eventually yielded sweeter, bigger fruit, and the crop became a staple throughout Southeast Asia, Malaysia, southern China and the Philippines. Over thousands of years, the fruit crossed the Pacific to Africa, where the word for &#8220;food&#8221; and &#8220;banana&#8221; is the same in many regions. Once bananas arrived in the New World—via Polynesian sailors—they soon evolved from a luxury food into a necessity, as entrepreneurs figured out how to grow them in Central America and transport them by ship and rail in refrigerated containers that kept them fresh for the huge U.S. market. United [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Publishers Weekly reviews Banana</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This brief &#8211; but nice &#8211; review appeared in the October 29, 2007 edition of Publishers Weekly. It also serves as a pretty good pocket summary of what the book is about. &#8220;The world’s most humble fruit has caused inordinate damage to nature and man, and Popular Science journalist Koeppel (To See Every Bird on Earth) embarks on an intelligent, chock-a-block sifting through the havoc. Seedless, sexless bananas evolved from a wild inedible fruit first cultivated in Southeast Asia, and was probably the “apple” that got Adam and Eve in trouble in the Garden of Eden. buy the book From there the fruit traveled to Africa and across the Pacific, arriving on U.S. shores probably with the Europeans in the 15th century. However, the history of the banana turned sinister as American businessmen caught on to the marketability of this popular, highly perishable fruit then grown in Jamaica. Thanks to the building of the railroad through Costa Rica by the turn of the century, the United Fruit company flourished in Central America, its tentacles extending into all facets of government and industry, toppling “banana republics” and igniting labor wars. Meanwhile, the Gros Michel variety was annihilated by a fungus called [...]]]></description>
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