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Bananas became a dietary staple as a health food

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California postman discovered the Hass avocado

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

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Humans Were Roasting Starchy Root Vegetables 170,000 Years Ago

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

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Johnny Appleseed’s obituary in 1845

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

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Thousands of historic watercolor paintings of fruit now online

California dates

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

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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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