Banana (30 page)
Authors: Dan Koeppel
Uruguay
Utin Lap banana
Vaccaro, Joseph
Vaccaro Brothers and Company
Valery banana
Vargas, Cortés
Vay de Vara, Count
Venezuela
Verdick, Jon
Vietnam
Vikings
Villeda Morales, Ramón
Visayan Islands
Vitamin A deficiency
Vulgate Bible
Walker, William
Wallace, Alfred Russel
Wallace's line
War of a Thousand Days
Wardlaw, Claude
Waring, George
Watergate scandal
West Indies Fruit Company
“When I Saw Sweet Nellie Home” (song)
Whitman, Ed
Whole Foods Market
Why the Kremlin Hates Bananas
(movie)
Wild bananas
Williams, John
Williams banana
Wilmington, Ohio
Wilson, Charles Morrow
Wilson, Woodrow
Wing, Daniel G.
Workers' movements
World Health Organization (WHO)
World Trade Organization (WTO)
World War
Yam
“Yes, We Have No Bananas” (song)
Zammitt, Emmanuel
Zapata
Zarins, Juris
Zemurray, Doris
Zemurray, Samuel
Zingiberales
Dan Koeppel is a nature, outdoors, and science writer whose work has appeared in national magazines including
Wired, Popular Science, Elle, Audubon, Backpacker, Bicycling,
and the
New York Times Magazine.
He is a contributing editor at
National Geographic Adventure
and the author of
To See Every Bird on Earth,
a memoir published by Hudson Street Press in 2005. He has written for television and movies, including
Star Trek: The Next Generation,
and is a member of the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame. He grew up in Queens, New York, and lives in Los Angeles, a place in the vicinity of which nearly every kind of fruitâexcept bananasâwas once grown.
* Officially, bananas that are sweet, like our Cavendish, are called “dessert bananas,” while bananas eaten green are called “cooking bananas.” In this book, we'll consider them more or less interchangeable, since the genetic differences between them are limited.
* A fourth African banana type is modern, brought to the continent within the last century or so.
* While Chiquita had become the company's brand name, officially it was still called United Fruit.