Banana by Dan Koeppel

Author:Dan Koeppel
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2008-09-21T16:00:00+00:00

TODAY, CHATSWORTH IS A TOURIST ATTRACTION. While the duke and his family live in private quarters (if they’re home; they own eight other residences throughout the world), the public peruses the visitors shop’s fine china and garden furniture, and brings picnics to free concerts held on the grounds every summer. They also visit the gardens—a fifteen-foot-high bronze rabbit, a recent acquisition, is currently the facility’s nonhorticultural centerpiece. That this is the adoptive home of our banana—another stop on the fruit’s ever-more-sprawling ten thousand–year journey, and the place where the original ancestor of our lunchbox staple was likely first tasted by people living in the cooler climates of the north—isn’t acknowledged at all.

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