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How to Taste a Pineapple
Nate DeMao: Try to remember what it's like to taste a pineapple. He says the flavor, the immediacy, the punch is extraordinary. In 1496, Christopher Columbus returned from his second voyage to the Caribbean with some birds and plants he thinks are from Asia but aren't. The pitch is enough to get the King of Spain to pony up for a second voyage - this one for keeps.