Prologue: Blame It on Brazil | p. 1 |
Introduction: The Fruit Underworld | p. 5 |
Nature | p. 17 |
Wild, Ripe and Juicy: What Is a Fruit? | p. 19 |
Hawaiian Ultraexotics | p. 32 |
How Fruits Shaped Us | p. 46 |
The Rare Fruit Council International | p. 59 |
Adventure | p. 75 |
Into Borneo | p. 77 |
The Fruitarians | p. 91 |
The Lady Fruit | p. 108 |
Seedy: The Fruitleggers | p. 123 |
Commerce | p. 141 |
Marketing: From Grapples to Gojis | p. 143 |
Miraculin: The Story of the Miracle Fruit | p. 166 |
Mass Production: The Geopolitics of Sweetness | p. 180 |
Permanent Global Summertime | p. 198 |
Obsession | p. 213 |
Preservation: The Passion of the Fruit | p. 215 |
The Case of the Fruit Detective | p. 228 |
Making Contact with the Otherworld | p. 242 |
Fruition: Or the Fever of Creation | p. 254 |
Acknowledgments | p. 265 |
Further Reading | p. 266 |
Index | p. 272 |
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