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"The Rented Fruit - When pineapples were purses and nobody ate them" explores the obsession with pineapples in 18th-century England and America. Because they were impossible to grow in a cold climate without expensive hothouses, a single pineapple could cost the equivalent of $8,000 today. They were too valuable to eat.Author Sarah Crown explains how the pineapple became the ultimate status symbol. People would rent a pineapple for the night just to carry it around at a party or place it as a centerpiece to prove their wealth. The fruit would be rented out repeatedly until it rotted."The...