Pineapple

Okinawa pineapple

Thanks to the Columbian exchange the entire planet benefited from South American culinary exotica and the pineapple was a score indeed. History of this foreign fruit hitting Japan dates back to 1866 when budding plants from a Dutch shipwreck of Ishigaki island floated ashore into Kabira bay. 1927 marked the introduction of cayenne pineapples to […]