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Nearly 4,000 festival-goers had the chance to taste everything banana last weekend: banana pancakes, bread, pudding, cookies and even banana-flavored ice cream, all while contributing to the Sojourner Truth Multicultural Art Museum at Sacramento’s inaugural banana festival. Held at Cosumnes River College Friday through Sunday, the festival educated the community on banana health benefits, said Shonna McDaniels, the museum’s director. “We wanted to bring the concept of the banana and how different cultures use and prepare the banana and educate the community,” McDaniels said. Those various cultures included the Caribbean and countries in Asia, the Americas and Africa. In conjunction wit