A Personal Goal

So it is well-known that I don't like bananas.  Famously, the 2 hedonistic (i.e. of or pertaining to physical pleasure) things I can't stand are marijuana and bananas.  So anyway, I am reading this great article in Saveur, about the cuisine of the Garifuna people, who are an enclave of African slave-descendants living in coastal Honduras.  Their cuisine is fascinating.  I am always fascinated by border cuisines, and the one saving grace of colonialism is that it creates new borders. (Case in point: France and Vietnam don't share a border, but thanks to Imperialism, we can still enjoy pho (aka Vietnamese pot-au-feu) and bahn mi (aka Vietnamese pate sandwiches).  Well, the Garifuna people live on the artificial border of West Africa, South America, and the Caribbean.  Their cuisine is creole, but a totally different type of Creole.

Anyway, I am meandering.  The point is, they have a dish called Tapou, that is a whole fried fish served in a tomato-achoite-coconut stew with garlic, ginger, cumin, oregano...  It looks incredible.  But then, I'm reading the recipe, and it gets to the vegetables that are simmered in the stew, and one is green bananas.  Fuck.

So anyway, my goal is to rid myself of my banana problem.  Jeffrey Steingarten did away with all of his food phobias in order to write The Man Who Ate Everything, so if he can do it, I can too.

I will kick my banana problem, and I will make Tapou, and it will be good.