Texas Locavore

In yesterday’s New York Times, Dan Koeppel, author of “Bananas: The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World,” braces us for cheerios floating alone in milk, one fewer perfect partner for peanut butter, and increased demand for potassium-rich potatoes.  Perhaps unique in their story of globalization on the cheap, bananas, he argues, will soon seem as exotic as they truly are.