[Sca-cooks] Banana Recipe
Terry Decker
t.d.decker at att.net
Tue Jul 20 05:00:21 PDT 2010
> Have you discussed the origins of bananas? I was under the impression that
> bananas or platains were New World or Malaysian in origins.
> Aelina
Bananas are Old World (probabaly SE Asian) in origin. Pliny notes that they
were first encountered by Alexander's armies in India in 325 BCE, where they
were part of the Indian diet. Oviedo notes that bananas were transplanted
from the Canaries to the New World by Fra Tomas de Berlanga in 1517.
Bear
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