Oooh, this looks like a good one. Hi again! I'm back from my travels. And, here's the first of many posts on food. I read an op-ed piece in the New York Times last month about bananas. It was written by Dan Koeppel, who was just presenting the basics idea of his book. It looks really good. I might add it to the list for next fall.
Anyway, the op-ed piece talks about how Americans eat more bananas than apples and oranges combined, that we don't eat the same bananas that our grandparents ate, and that there was a worldwide banana fungus that wiped out the previous type of banana, leaving us with the less tasty banana we know today. (????) And, the author's website includes a picture of the Banana Hall of Fame. Such fun.
Did you see how Ingrid Betancourt was finally rescued from her six-year-long imprisonment in the Colombian jungle? That's good news!
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