{"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":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/juniorkitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/redbananasss.jpg\" title=\"redbananasss.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/juniorkitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/redbananasss.jpg\" alt=\"redbananasss.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A harvest of red bananas landed in our kitchen this past week. Homegrown bananas are like homegrown tomatoes \u2013 you don\u2019t know how good they are until you\u2019ve had them. They taste better than the ones you\u2019ll find in the grocery store\u2026 or at least <em>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, \u201cgreen\u201d-tasting) as gifts.<\/p>\n<p>Bananas grow almost everywhere it doesn\u2019t snow and a few places it does (a little), and somehow they\u2019ve managed to be shipped everywhere from Alaska to Perth. But nearly all of those are just one variety \u2013 the Cavendish. And those are all shipped green in giant refrigerators. (Yeah, the no-refrigerator rule is myth.) You might have heard the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=19097412\">NPR interview<\/a> with Dan Koeppel, whose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Banana-Fate-Fruit-Changed-World\/dp\/1594630380\/guilofscie-20\">new book about the  history of bananas, <em>Banana<\/em>,<\/a> is pretty interesting. Or, if you\u2019d like to really get into the grim politics of non-homegrown bananas, then maybe take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bananas-United-Fruit-Company-Shaped\/dp\/1841958816\/guilofscie-20\/\">Peter Chapman\u2019s <em>Bananas!<\/em><\/a> (I haven\u2019t read that one, but the exclamation point apparently makes all the difference.)<\/p>\n<p>If you ever get a chance to sample local bananas \u2013 or to try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenguides.com\/how-to\/tipstechniques\/fruitnuts\/banana.asp\">growing your own<\/a>, no matter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatprice.co.uk\/gardening\/bananas-growing.html\">where you are<\/a> \u2013 take it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/juniorkitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/cereal.jpg\" title=\"cereal.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/juniorkitchen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/cereal.jpg\" alt=\"cereal.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A harvest of red bananas landed in our kitchen this past week. Homegrown bananas are like homegrown tomatoes \u2013 you don\u2019t know how good they are until you\u2019ve had them. They taste better than the ones you\u2019ll find in the grocery store\u2026 or at least different. These red ones are rich, tart fruits that almost&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-most-important-meal-of-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorkitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorkitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorkitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorkitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorkitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/juniorkitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorkitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorkitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorkitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}