A review by lavoiture
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World by Dan Koeppel

3.0

Finally, I finished! This was an interesting, if somewhat bleak, look at bananas. I thought it would be more about the history of bananas and the involvement of banana companies in Central America. Turns out it was more about the diseases that are striking down bananas in a plague-like fashion all over the world. Scary. My children, or my children's children, most likely won't know the bananas we eat today--and the author argues that genetically modifying bananas might be the only way to save the fruit in general. Anywho. It was pretty good.