Thanks to its feature in the "Chiquita Banana Recipe Book," banana bread's popularity soared.
Recipes for banana bread began to show up in popular cookbooks.
Money was so tight during the Great Depression that people refused to throw away rotten food — thus ushering in the era of overly ripe bananas in banana bread.
Thanks to the invention of refrigeration techniques, transporting bananas to the U.S. became much easier.
