LEADER 02817oam 2200529Ia 450 001 9910155030903321 005 20250204190721.0 010 $a9781780235714 010 $a1780235712 010 $a9781780236063 010 $a1780236069 024 7 $a10.5040/9781780236063 035 $a(CKB)3710000000964665 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4753356 035 $a(OCoLC)966239279 035 $a(UkLoBP)BP9781780236063BFoL 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000964665 100 $a20230509e20162023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBanana $ea global history /$fLorna Piatti-Farnell 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aLondon :$cReaktion Books,$d2016. 210 2$aLondon :$cBloomsbury Publishing (US),$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (175 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $vEdible 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroducing the Banana Family 1. Growing Banana: Histories, Legends and Myths 2. How to Eat Bananas 3. The Banana Trade 4. Imaginary Bananas Epilogue Recipes References Select Bibliography Websites and Associations Photo Acknowledgments Index 330 $aFor over a century, the banana has been the world's favourite fruit. Quick and easy to eat, tasty and versatile, the banana is a staple of many diets around the globe. Its history, however, is more than simply a succession of happy family scenes and appealing exotic locations. The growth and development of the fruit we know and love today is entangled with colonial practices, capitalist enterprise, sexual politics and even horrific murders. Banana: A Global History takes us from the agricultural beginnings of the banana in New Guinea to its almost ubiquitous presence in culinary repertoires around the globe, from the United States to the Caribbean, from regions of Africa to the heart of Southeast Asia. The book gives us an insight into the life of the banana over millennia, focusing on our recent history and its cultural affair with the fruit. The global life of the banana is traced in cultural practices, advertising, commercial schemes and the unmissable icons of popular culture, from nineteenth-century medical manuals to cookbooks, songs, the famous 'banana peel gag' and the well-known Miss Chiquita icon. 410 0$aEdible . 606 $aBananas 606 $aFood$xHistory 606 $aFood and society$2bicssc 615 0$aBananas. 615 0$aFood$xHistory 615 7$aFood and society 676 $a641.34772 700 $aPiatti-Farnell$b Lorna$0887182 801 0$bUkLoBP 801 1$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910155030903321 996 $aBanana$93417023 997 $aUNINA