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Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
by Dan Koeppel
from Hudson Street Press
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Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 
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Mangu de Platano
I am deeply grateful to Koeppel for the tribute he paid to Phil Rowe, the United Brands banana/plantain breeder in Honduras who died in 2001. Koeppel never met him but obviously captured a strong sense of who Phil was and his important contribution to world food security. I met Phil Rowe in 1981 in Tela Honduras and spent the day enthralled listening and learning about challenges to the World banana/plantain crop and Phil's efforts to overcome the challenges to successful banana/plantain breeding.more info
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Bananarama! The Forbidden and Forgotten Fruit of the Loom.
Out of all the fruits grown in the world,the banana gets little respect.Yet,the banana is perhaps the single most important fruit ever cultivated on our good Earth.Dan Koeppel writes a very interesting historical and cultural book about the seriousness of the banana politics.Countless comics have slipped on a banana peel and heaved a banana cream pie on another.We use phrases like ,'second banana' and 'banana republic';to deride or comically mock a puppet leader or puppet government.Still ,banananomics is... more info
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who knew?
awesome book. who knew how important bananas were to the WORLD?? Fascinating story with important questions for the future of hungry people around the world. I'll never think of bananas as a simple food again. The banana has global impact. Great read.
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Very informative 
A bit America-centric for European readers but nonetheless great to have all this info in one place.
Buy fair trade organic every time.
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