How Banana Bread is Keeping Us All Sane Right Now
3 min readApr 17, 2020
Everyone is making banana bread. But why? It’s more than a matter of practicality. It’s a psychology. As we enter what looks like yet another global recession, I decided to investigate banana bread’s frugal history.
Enter one Mary Ellis Ames, home economist extraordinaire, eminent member of the Pillsbury Cookery Club, and Director of Pillsbury’s Cooking Service, a subsidiary of…