This isn’t the banana bread you instinctively think of when you hear banana bread. That’s cake. This ain’t cake. It’s bread with banana as an ingredient made in our Zojirushi bread maker.

It’s early in 2014. Healthy living still preoccupies people, including us at G@H.  But, really, our interest stretches beyond the New Year. Although we aren’t old, we’re getting older.  We think more about our food. We try to eat better—mostly because we don’t want to buy new pants but also because we see food differently. We appreciate food as fuel. The right food boosts our energy, improves our focus and keeps us, well, alive. Don’t mistake us. We eat pizza and ribs. We’d rather lose a lung than give up Buffalo wings. Cheese is, most definitely, our friend. To facilitate eating bad occasionally, though, we eat well ordinarily. One G@H editor particularly sucks at breakfast. He often skips it. When he has something, it’s usually instant oatmeal. That changes today. Today is February 1, and each day during February, he...