{"id":132191,"date":"2018-12-31T11:00:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T16:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=132191"},"modified":"2018-12-20T11:33:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T16:33:31","slug":"the-strange-history-of-the-king-pine-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/31\/the-strange-history-of-the-king-pine-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Strange History of the \u201cKing-Pine\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>We\u2019re away until January 2, but we\u2019re reposting some of our favorite pieces from 2018. Enjoy your holiday!<\/i><\/p>\r\n<div id=\"attachment_124609\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/pineapple-roundup11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-124609\" class=\"size-full wp-image-124609\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/pineapple-roundup11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"950\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/pineapple-roundup11.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/pineapple-roundup11-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/pineapple-roundup11-768x404.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-124609\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Recent pineapple decorating trends.<\/p><\/div>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>\u201cThere is no nobler fruit in the universe,\u201d Jean de L\u00e9ry writes of the pineapple. Charles Lamb loved the fruit erotically: \u201cPleasure bordering on pain, from the fierceness and insanity of her relish, like a lovers\u2019 kisses she biteth.\u201d \u00a0Pieter de la Court professes: \u201cOne can never be tire\u2019d with looking on it.\u201d How did these men, and so many others, become so enraptured with the pineapple? And how have we forgotten its former grandeur?<\/p>\r\n<p>In 1496, when Christopher Columbus was returning from his second voyage to the Americas, he brought back a consignment of pineapples. Little did he know that this golden gift, nestled among the tame parrots, tomatoes, tobacco, and pumpkins, would be the crowning glory of his cargo.<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/25\/the-strange-history-of-the-king-pine\/\">Read more &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re away until January 2, but we\u2019re reposting some of our favorite pieces from 2018. Enjoy your holiday! &nbsp; \u201cThere is no nobler fruit in the universe,\u201d Jean de L\u00e9ry writes of the pineapple. Charles Lamb loved the fruit erotically: \u201cPleasure bordering on pain, from the fierceness and insanity of her relish, like a lovers\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44292],"tags":[33843,2780,7760,33844,33845,33846,33847,33841,15841,24321,33842],"class_list":["post-132191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-of-2018","tag-charles-ii","tag-charles-lamb","tag-colonialism","tag-divine-right-of-kings","tag-fran-beauman","tag-jean-de-lery","tag-pieter-de-la-court","tag-pineapples","tag-seventeenth-century","tag-west-indies","tag-william-of-orange"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Strange History of the \u201cKing-Pine\u201d<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In the seventeenth and eighteenth century, a pineapple frenzy swept Europe.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/31\/the-strange-history-of-the-king-pine-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Strange History of the \u201cKing-Pine\u201d by Nina-Sophia Miralles\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"December 31, 2018 \u2013 We\u2019re away until January 2, but we\u2019re reposting some of our favorite pieces from 2018. 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