Our love for bananas knows no bounds. Join us as we celebrate the versatile fruit with recipes and stories.
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Bananas for Bananas | Food Song for Kids | Pancake House
A year ago I pitched the Serious Eats team what I thought was a crazy idea: a compelling collection of recipes and articles celebrating my love of bananas. I was so excited—I nearly shouted—that our editor-in-chief Daniel Gritzer fell off his chair in excitement. It turns out that the rest of the Serious Eats team loves bananas just as much as I do (well almost).
A year later I find myself here to share this labor of love. Over the past few months I have immersed myself so deeply in the world of bananas that my husband has essentially banned the fruit from our household after too many bowls of banana pudding slices of banoffee pie and buckets of banana smoothies while I was working on those recipes. My love for bananas knows no bounds and I will not rest until you are all as excited about bananas as I am.
It’s easy to take bananas for granted: the fruit is everywhere. Back in the day before the turn of the 20th century when advances in shipping and agriculture made it possible to transport the fruit beyond its native tropical zones bananas were a luxury. For me bananas are still a luxury and I get excited about them even though I eat them at least once a day. They’re an ingredient so versatile that if you wanted to you could make a delicious meal with almost anything from the plant. In the West bananas are prized for their fruit and reserved for the realm of desserts where they play a starring role in such classics as banana bread banana pudding and banana cream pie. In other parts of the world the leaves blossoms and sometimes even the root of the fruit are used in both sweet and savory dishes.
