Reviews

Pineapple Culture: A History of the Tropical and Temperate Zones by Gary Y. Okihiro

atsundarsingh's review

4.0

Okihiro uses the pineapple as the lens through which we can view and organize many topics, from American imperial expansion to modern material culture. The book is not a history of the fruit or food alone. It is also a history of culture, thought and industry, from the colonial period to the present, and the story of how the sweet pleasant taste of a pineapple is a perfect foil for the dark history of colonialism and expansion that made it ubiquitous.

geriatricgretch's review

3.0

Kind of rambly, but a good investigation of American colonialism through Hawaii and the pineapple.