1931 Cuban Cookery by Blanche Z de Baralt

BANANAS

The banana has made rapid ~ irides in the past twenty years as a universal food staple. It is found and eaten: in the remotest towns of European countries. where not many years ago it was totally unknown~ its wonderful merits as a nutririve product having been extolled by medical faculties and its intensive cultivation pressed. Within a generation the West Indies and Central America have developed an mmense trade in bananas which are exported throughout the world. The