具体描述
In the vein of Mark Kurlansky's bestselling Salt and Cod, a gripping chronicle of the myth, mystery, and uncertain fate of the world’s most popular fruit
In this fascinating and surprising exploration of the banana’s history, cultural significance, and endangered future, award-winning journalist Dan Koeppel gives readers plenty of food for thought. Fast-paced and highly entertaining, Banana takes us from jungle to supermarket, from corporate boardrooms to kitchen tables around the world. We begin in the Garden of Eden—examining scholars’ belief that Eve’s “apple” was actually a banana— and travel to early-twentieth-century Central America, where aptly named “banana republics” rose and fell over the crop, while the companies now known as Chiquita and Dole conquered the marketplace. Koeppel then chronicles the banana’s path to the present, ultimately—and most alarmingly—taking us to banana plantations across the globe that are being destroyed by a fast-moving blight, with no cure in sight—and to the high-tech labs where new bananas are literally being built in test tubes, in a race to save the world’s most beloved fruit.
作者简介
Dan Koeppel, a 2011 James Beard Award winner, is a science and nature writer who has written for National Geographic, Outside, Scientific American, Wired, and other national publications. He has discussed bananas on NPR’s Fresh Air and Science Friday.
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Acknowledgments
The World's Most Humble Fruit
PART I: FAMILY TREES
Chapter 1: And God Created the Banana
Chapter 2: A Banana in Your Pocket?
Chapter 3: The First Farm
Chapter 4: All in the Family
PART II: EXPANSION
Chapter 5: Asia
Chapter 6: Pacific
Chapter 7: Africa
Chapter 8: Americas
PART III: CORN FLAKES AND COUP D'ETATS
Chapter 9: Bringing Bananas Home
Chapter 10: Taming the Wild
Chapter 11: Why Banana Peels Are Funny
Chapter 12: Sam the Banana Man
Chapter 13: No Bananas Today
Chapter 14: Man Makes a Banana
Chapter 15: The Banana Massacre
Chapter 16: The Inhuman Republics
Chapter 17: Straightening Out the Business
PART IV: NEVER ENOUGH
Chapter 18: Knowledge is Powerless
Chapter 19: Pure Science
Chapter 20: A Second Front
Chapter 21: No Respite
Chapter 22: Brand Name Bananas
Chapter 23: Guatemala
PART V: GOODBYE, MICHEL
Chapter 24: Cavendish
Chapter 25: Falling Apart
Chapter 26: The Answer
Chapter 27: Chronic Injury
Chapter 28: Rescue
Chapter 29: A Savior?
Chapter 30: Golden Child
PART VI: A NEW BANANA
Chapter 31: Room for Improvement
Chapter 32: How Far to Panama?
Chapter 33: A Banana Crossroads
Chapter 34: Frankenbanana?
Chapter 35: Loving Bananas
Chapter 36: Still the Octopus?
Chapter 37: An Answer?
A Banana Timeline
Bibliography
Index
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