Bananas: An American History
Jan 2014 · Smithsonian Institution
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Before 1880 most Americans had never seen a banana. By 1910 bananas were so common that streets were littered with their peels. Today Americans eat on average nearly seventy-five per year. More than a staple of the American diet, bananas have gained a secure place in the nation's culture and folklore. They have been recommended as the secret to longevity, the perfect food for infants, and the cure for warts, headaches, and stage fright. Essential to the cereal bowl and the pratfall, they remain a mainstay of jokes, songs, and wordplay even after a century of rapid change.
Covering every aspect of the banana in American culture, from its beginnings as luxury food to its reputation in the 1910s as the “poor man's” fruit to its role today as a healthy, easy-to-carry snack, Bananas provides an insightful look at a fruit with appeal.
Covering every aspect of the banana in American culture, from its beginnings as luxury food to its reputation in the 1910s as the “poor man's” fruit to its role today as a healthy, easy-to-carry snack, Bananas provides an insightful look at a fruit with appeal.
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Virginia Scott Jenkins is a scholar in residence at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, St. Michaels, Maryland.
Jenkins' is also the author of The Lawn: A History of an American Obsession, which Publishers Weekly called "a quirky, thoroughly enjoyable look at man vs. nature, man vs. woman, and man vs. the Joneses."
Jenkins' is also the author of The Lawn: A History of an American Obsession, which Publishers Weekly called "a quirky, thoroughly enjoyable look at man vs. nature, man vs. woman, and man vs. the Joneses."
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