Banana

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At the heart of the book is a long poem that traces the history of bananas in Latin America using only found text from sources such as history books, declassified CIA documents, and commercials. Whichever you choose we hope you enjoy being part of your unique reading community – happy reading everyone! For example, bananas are cloned when farmed instead of reproduced, making it hard to breed a new banana. The banana as we know it may on its way out, but there is a lot to learn from its journey and a lot to reflect on in terms of our relationship with food and money.In a creative landscape that is increasingly homogenised by an Anglo-American style, it’s refreshing to pick up literature that has not lost its thisness. Trading Address (Warehouse) Unit E, Vulcan Business Complex, Vulcan Road, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE5 3EB. Guatemala in particular, with the CIA-orchestrated conspiracy / coup that was very much related to United Fruit and bananas. 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. As you all may know by now, I am fascinated by the industries of food and agriculture and I will devour any book with an indepth look at anything related to these.

The most famous and best-selling of this genre is probably the history of the decades-long race to correctly determine longitude, but there are many historical events that have received a fine treatment, including the sinking of the Lusitania, the assassination of President James Garfield, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, 17th-century Tulip mania, the eruption of Krakatoa, the mad bomber of 1950's Manhattan, murders too numerous to mention individually, and (my sentimental favorite) the Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919. S. government needs to take a hard line with these companies and mandate political changes to make this happen. I mean, I'd happily read 400+ pages about pencils, but I've noticed that other people might think that was a waste of time.Please read our guide on permission to read books aloud online (this link will open in a new window). A cousin to this genre is the micro-history on man-made constructs and other non-commodities including, but not limited to, home, cleanliness, color, reading, marriage, wives (but, interestingly, not husbands), cancer, rabies, sex, zero, infinity, rats, swearing, corpses, and many more. I wonder if that was what they tried, and the interconnections of all the information prevented its success?