Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange Anita Desai From the first steam trains

From the first steam trains to the high-speed bullet trains of today

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Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange Anita Desai From the first steam trainsPer person, oranges are the most consumed fruit in the world. Across the world, no matter how remote or cold or incongruous a climate is, oranges will be there. What stories could I unravel from the orange's long ribboning peel? What new meanings could I find in its variousness, as it moves from east to west and from familiar to foreign? What begins as a curiosity into the origins of the orange soon becomes a far reaching odyssey of citrus for Katie