Go Bananas!: 150 Recipes for America's Most Versatile Fruit (Susan Quick)

Here is a feast of mouth-watering recipes for your favorite fruit, from breakfast to main dishes to desserts: Crisp-fried plantain chips dipped in fiery pepper sauce. Sea bass fillets grilled in aromatic banana leaves. Caramelized banana cream pie. Healthful smoothies, hearty vegetarian meals, cool banana cocktails, and, yes, the ultimate banana bread, studded with chunks of dark chocolate.

Packaged in its own distinctive wrapper, the yellow banana is as good for you as it is good to eat. And its relatives are equally nutritious and delicious: plantains, baby bananas, peach-fleshed red bananas, and exotic manzanos (tasting of apples and strawberries). Filled with fascinating banana lore, Go Bananas! offers 150 imaginative recipes for the banana and its cousins. You're certain to "go bananas" over this banan-za of a cookbook.

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