How did such a tropical treasure become the centerpiece of European social life, in an era before steamships and refrigeration? (via Gastropodcast)
Pray join us, gentle reader, for a quick spot of time travel. It’s the early 1700s, and you are a lady or lord attending a formal dinner at an English country estate.
, told Gastropod. “One assumes because the sensation of sweetness was still so rare in Europe, that to experience it direct from nature—especially to an explorer, who’d probably been living on biscuits for months and months and months—was very memorable.” British horticulturists and pineapple enthusiasts must have been furious, then, to hear that, in 1685, a Dutch female botanist named Agneta Block had finally succeeded in fruiting a pineapple at her estate. It was the first to be grown in Europe, though another Dutchman, Casper Fagel, also encouraged some plants to bear fruit later the same year.
Telende’s technique was shared in print in 1721, and, shortly thereafter, everyone who was anyone across the British Isles got busy building their very own “pinery.
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