I’ll be talking about the Cavendish banana – our supermarket breed – and why it is an economic, political, and culinary dead end – organic, fair trade, or conventional. I’ll be offering a picture of what a future banana – one that helps correct a century of social and environmental justice – might look like. [...]
An asymptote is a straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely, but never reaches, as they go to infinity. (Wiktionary.)
Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman recommends it.
Listen to my interview with Terry Gross on NPR's Fresh Air.
Read my own op-ed in The New York Times.
You can get a really good sense of what the book is about from this Huffington Post story.
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