Banana : a global history / Lorna Piatti-Farnell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Piatti-Farnell, Lorna, 1980- author.

Series:

Edible

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bananas--History.

Bananas.

Cooking (Bananas).

History.

Physical Description:

173 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

London, UK : Reaktion Books, 2016.

Summary:

Includes a selection of recipes, Bananas were cultivated in the Kuk Swamp in New Guinea 6,000 years ago, The great taxonomist Linnaeus named the banana Musa sapientum, the 'fruit of wise men', Bananas were taken to Hispaniola and the Caribbean in the sixteenth century to provide cheap food for African slaves, The Cavendish variety makes up 47 per cent of the world's traded bananas, Bananas can be red, orange, pink or green, as well as yellow, All cultivated bananas are sterile, and banana plants are reproduced by grafting, which essentially 'clones' the parent plant Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Growing Bananas: Histories, Legends and Myths 30

2 How to Eat Bananas 56

3 The Banana Trade 78

4 Imaginary Bananas 103.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-161)-144) and index.

ISBN:

9781780235714

1780235712

OCLC:

920720321

Publisher Number:

99967177485