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Bananas became a dietary staple as a health food

California postman discovered the Hass avocado

How apples came to be sold on street corners during the Great Depression

Humans Were Roasting Starchy Root Vegetables 170,000 Years Ago

If you love kiwi, jackfruit or jicama, thank this woman

Johnny Appleseed’s obituary in 1845

Sealing fruit with coatings like wax goes back more than 900 years

Thousands of historic watercolor paintings of fruit now online

California dates

U.S. growers got their first date plants from Morocco, Syria and Algeria

Books of Interest

Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States

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Banana Wars: Power, Production, and History in the Americas

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Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World

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Bananas and Business: The United Fruit Company in Columbia, 1899-2000

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Bananas: An American History

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Bananas: How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World

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Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination

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Citrus: A History

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Curious History of Vegetables: Aphrodisiacal and Healing Properties, Folk Tales, Garden Tips, and Recipes

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Drunken Botanist: The Plants that Create the World’s Great Drinks

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Fifty Plants that Changed the Course of History

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From the Earth: World’s Great, Rare and Almost Forgotten Vegetables

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Herbs: A Global History

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Lemon: A Global History

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Massachusetts Cranberry Culture: A History from Bog to Table

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Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden

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Political Ecology of Bananas: Contract Farming, Peasants, and Agrarian Change in the Eastern Caribbean

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Pomodoro! A History of the Tomato in Italy

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Potato: A Global History

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Potato: A History of the Propitious Esculent

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Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World

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Seeds of Change: Six Plants that Transformed Mankind

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Tomato in America: Early History, Culture, and Cookery

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Tomato: A Global History

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Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History

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