Harold McGee

Plantains

Appears in
On Food and Cooking
On Food and Cooking

By Harold McGee

Published 2004

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Plantains are varieties of banana that retain much of their starchiness even when ripe, and are treated like other starchy vegetables. They’re described along with their sweeter cousins.

From the book On Food and Cooking (2nd edition) by Harold McGee. © 2004 Harold McGee. By permission of Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.