{"id":127,"date":"2008-04-22T06:30:55","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T06:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juniorkitchen.com\/?p=127"},"modified":"2008-04-22T02:35:13","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T02:35:13","slug":"red-bananas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorkitchen.com\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"Red Bananas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A harvest of red bananas landed in our kitchen this past week. Homegrown bananas are like homegrown tomatoes – you don’t know how good they are until you’ve had them. They taste better than the ones you’ll find in the grocery store… or at least different<\/em>. These red ones are rich, tart fruits that almost taste like someone spritzed them with lime before serving them. We also grow Goldfingers (heavy, concentrated banana-ness) and sometimes get bunches of one or two varieties of plantains (thick, bready, “green”-tasting) as gifts.<\/p>\n

Bananas grow almost everywhere it doesn’t snow and a few places it does (a little), and somehow they’ve managed to be shipped everywhere from Alaska to Perth. But nearly all of those are just one variety – the Cavendish. And those are all shipped green in giant refrigerators. (Yeah, the no-refrigerator rule is myth.) You might have heard the NPR interview<\/a> with Dan Koeppel, whose new book about the history of bananas, Banana<\/em>,<\/a> is pretty interesting. Or, if you’d like to really get into the grim politics of non-homegrown bananas, then maybe take a look at Peter Chapman’s Bananas!<\/em><\/a> (I haven’t read that one, but the exclamation point apparently makes all the difference.)<\/p>\n

If you ever get a chance to sample local bananas – or to try growing your own<\/a>, no matter where you are<\/a> – take it.<\/p>\n

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