Date(s): Sunday, February 15, 2026
Time: 4:00pm-5:30pm
Venue: Downtown Branch of AADL
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Japan is the only place in the world where bananas are marketed and priced by cultivation altitude: lowland, midland, highland, and super highland. In the late 1980s, plantation managers in the southern Philippines discovered that the higher up one grew, the sweeter the bananas became. The sweeter the bananas, the closer to the sweetness of colonial Taiwanese bananas, a taste that had been lost when Japan switched to Philippines suppliers. Professor Alyssa Paredes discusses how the “highland cultivated banana” was invented and how fruits have become commodities endowed with unique, prized characteristics.
Dr. Alyssa Paredes is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan.
For teens & adults. Held in 4th Floor Program Room.
This event is in partnership with the Culinary Historians of Ann Arbor.
- Date(s): Sunday, February 15, 2026
- Time: 4:00pm-5:30pm
- Cost: Free
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- Organizer: Ann Arbor District Library
- Organizer Phone: Not Provided
- Organizer Email: Not Provided
Venue: Downtown Branch of AADL
Address: 343 South Fifth Avenue, Ann Arbor
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