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“Bananas Above the Clouds: How the Japanese Taste for Sweetness Transformed the Philippine Highlands”: Culinary Historians of Ann Arbor
U-M anthropology professor Alyssa Paredes discusses how the Japanese demand for sweet bananas led to cultivating bananas at higher altitudes in the Philippines. Japan is the only place in the world where bananas are priced according to the altitude of their origin. Q&A. 4–5:30 p.m., AADL Downtown, 4th fl. Also via YouTube; get URL at culinaryhistoriansannarbor.org or aadl.org/events. Free. (734) 327–4200.
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