The Washington Post, January 30th, 2002
This week's look at what's new, bountiful or mysterious in the produce aisles. Legend has it -- in some lands, anyway -- that Eve proffered Adam a banana, not an apple, according to "The Visual Food Encyclopedia (MacMillan, 1996). Could be. But if it was indeed a banana, do you suppose they argued over when it was fit to eat? That is, must it still bear a hint of green along the gently tapered ends? Must it be yellow and nothing else? Or must it be mottled with brown? It depends on how sweet and pronounced a flavor one prefers. Ripening is the result of a gradual conversion of starch to sugar,...
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