It has links to individual ingredients, as well as to complete dishes and historically important cookbooks. The timeline is smack dab in the middle of the homepage, and has links galore. She also notes that very few foods have been invented, rather they have just evolved. In a nutshell, the author tells the visitor that research on food history is quite difficult and complex, and gives a bounty of hints on how to approach a particular food puzzler. Clicking on this link is extremely helpful for those researching food, and just plain interesting for those who are simply curious. The Food Timeline was developed by a 'reference librarian with a passion for food history,' and her dedication is evident in the link near the top of the page entitled 'About Culinary Research'. Whether visitors to the Food Timeline are foodies, or just plain curious, they will definitely find more information than can be taken in at one sitting. Search 'food history' and 'food timeline' and 'Neolithic Revolution' on JSTORįrom The Scout Report, 9 January 2009 (Volume 15, Number 1) Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons/Blackwell 2009. The Food Chronology: A Food Lover's Compendium of Events and Anecdotes, from Prehistory to the Present. The American Century Cookbook: The Most Popular Recipes of the 20th Century. Today’s yellow banana, the Cavendish, is increasingly threatened by such a blight-and there’s no cure in sight.īanana combines a pop-science journey around the globe, a fascinating tale of an iconic American business enterprise, and a look into the alternately tragic and hilarious banana subculture (one does exist)-ultimately taking us 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. A seedless fruit with a unique reproductive system, every banana is a genetic duplicate of the next, and therefore susceptible to the same blights. Entire Central American nations have been said to rise and fall over the banana.īut the biggest mystery about the banana today is whether it will survive. Rich cultural lore surrounds the fruit: In ancient translations of the Bible, the “apple” consumed by Eve is actually a banana (it makes sense, doesn’t it?).

But for all its ubiquity, the banana is surprisingly mysterious nobody knows how bananas evolved or exactly where they originated. In others parts of the world, bananas are what keep millions of people alive. Americans eat more bananas than apples and oranges combined. To most people, a banana is a banana: a simple yellow fruit. A gripping biological detective story that uncovers the myth, mystery, and endangered fate of the world’s most humble fruit

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