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« The GOP's Playboy bunny | Main | Cheney and torture » Thursday, October 26, 2006Strange fruitsThe new issue (#23) of Cabinet, an arts and culture quarterly published in Brooklyn, arrived in the mail yesterday, and I read most of it last night. This issue is dedicated to the theme of fruits, and the cover displays a great photo of Belgian men dressed up for a carnival, holding tangerines.  Inside we find essays on: the colonial adventures of the United Fruit Company, Thoreau's "Wild Fruits," the citrus bud mite as sculptor, the 1893 US Supreme Court decision on the great tomato (fruit or vegetable) controversy, the miracle fruit (a West African berry), and more. I particularly like the memoir by the intellectual historian Barry Sanders, about his father's career selling fruits and vegetables. Full disclosure: I contributed to this issue, but I didn't write about fruit. Posted by Joshua Glenn at 02:04 PM
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