tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post839044465099343487..comments2023-10-12T02:21:40.102-07:00Comments on English Historical Fiction Authors: So Why Pineapples?Debra Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03256313302199653185noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2456802468539868519.post-45146982200532182552016-12-07T02:31:45.371-08:002016-12-07T02:31:45.371-08:00Loved your post. I know now the reason why behind ...Loved your post. I know now the reason why behind all of the garden and gate embelshments I see in old houses or palaces.<br />Sad though that you didn't mentioned that the original word for pineaple is used in Europe - Ananas, for Central America or Abacaxi, for the Amazon region, being this fruit fristly planted in India by the Portuguese.<br />And that, even if sugar from the cane was rare in remaining Europe, it wasn't so in the Iberian Peninsula. Although there is a geographical separation, it shouldn't be so in the study of History. Sugar was so important here that in Portugal, late 15th century, it's trade permits was given to convents. Sugar came from the first plantations in the archipelagos of Azores and Madeira. And it became so successful that it was the origin of the famour Portuguese convent sweets.Sara Seydakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11222216596493704600noreply@blogger.com