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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 01:10:35 -0000
From: "==?iso-8859-1?Q?Nanna_R==F6gnvaldard==F3ttir?==" <nannar at isholf.is>
Subject: Re: SC - Fw: [TY] Fruits From 'New World'

>According to the quick ref, Columbus introduced the pineapple (Ananas
>comosus) to Spain in 1493.  I haven't seen anything as to when the
pineapple
>reached England, but I suspect it is in the 17th Century, after England
>establishes colonies in the Caribbean.

John Evelyn says in his Diary (9 August 1661): "The famous Queen Pine
brought from Barbados ... the first that were ever seen in England were
those sent to Cromwell foure years since". The term pineapple had earlier
(15th to 17th century) been used to mean pinecone but the ananas (as the
fruit was originally called in English) soon took it over. (John Ayto, A
Gourmet=B4s Guide.) Jane Grigson says, in her Fruit Book, that at Ham House
near Richmond there is a painting of John Rose, the royal gardener, handing
Charles II the first pineapple grown in England.

Nanna
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