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Title: Banana
Condition: New
EAN: 9781780235714
ISBN: 9781780235714
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Format: Hardback
Type: Hardback
Release Date: 01/04/2016
Item Height: 198mm
Item Length: 120mm
Author: Lorna Piatti-Farnell
Language: English
Subtitle: A Global History
Description: For 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.
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Society & Culture
Book Series: Edible
Topic: Food & Drink
Release Year: 2016

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