- Hardcover: 336 pages
- Publisher: Chatto & Windus; illustrated edition edition (3 Nov 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0701176997
- ISBN-13: 978-0701176990
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.2 x 3.4 cm
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- #73 in Books > Scientific, Technical & Medical > Agriculture & Farming > Crop Production
- #94 in Books > Science & Nature > Food & Farming > Crop Husbandry
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Lucy Lethbridge, Literary Review.
" The Pineapple is written with an engaging verve and enthusiasm"
Zoe Strimpel, The Financial Times
"Beauman lovingly explains the pineapple’s ‘domestication’ from the fruit’s point of view"
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A fresh look at a fascinating story
6 Sep 2007
Format:Hardcover
Really enjoyed this book - it covers a lot of areas of interest from colonialism and exploration to consumerism, advertising and international trade, and fascinating aspects of English and American social history, particularly gardening and entertaining. Well researched, lots of cross references, many images that bring the story to life.
Unlike other histories told in dry, scientific terms, The Pineapple is also an amusing read - full of wit, and peppered with personal comments from the author that make the whole thing come to life.
My only criticism is that the evolving role of the pineapple in 20th century eating, drinking and entertaining is barely touched upon. The rest of the book is so thorough, that I'm hoping there are plans for a second book that focuses on the 20th century, perhaps even told through historic recipes from early uses as showy garnish to its continuing starring role in cocktails ever since Trader Vic and Don the Beachcomber first started mixing, to its health benefits, as well as the continuing popularity of the pineapple as a decorative symbol.
Unlike other histories told in dry, scientific terms, The Pineapple is also an amusing read - full of wit, and peppered with personal comments from the author that make the whole thing come to life.
My only criticism is that the evolving role of the pineapple in 20th century eating, drinking and entertaining is barely touched upon. The rest of the book is so thorough, that I'm hoping there are plans for a second book that focuses on the 20th century, perhaps even told through historic recipes from early uses as showy garnish to its continuing starring role in cocktails ever since Trader Vic and Don the Beachcomber first started mixing, to its health benefits, as well as the continuing popularity of the pineapple as a decorative symbol.
Fleshed Out
4 April 2008
Format:Hardcover
"The Pineapple" is a wonderful feast of ideas and insights, beautiful written and well-illustrated. Here the photographs add a lot to the subject./ They have been selected with great care and do a lot to carry the narrative forward. Beauman really does a superb job of narrating the story of pineapple's introduction into Western culture as an icon of wealth and social standing and then as a symbol of a middle-class comfort food. It is a story of mass production, modern transportation, and availability. If supply and demand ever needed illustrating, this is a worthy source. I am most pleased to have found an author who is not afraid to speak honestly about race and class, free of the awful sort of obfuscating political correctness and impenetrable jargon that mars so much writing. This is a classic of concise writing, done with that unique talent the Brits have for making complex ideas simple and clear. the author has done an admirable bit for modern scholarship, made available to the general public, as history always should be.
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