Pineapple

Why should you eat pineapple?
Because it’s yummy and makes you feel like you’re on vacation in a tropical place... Even in winter. It’s the Corona of fruit. Plus it helps cravings for candy (chocolate excluded).

So cut in and eat it by itself, in chicken salad, in tofu salad, in a tropical salad, dipped in chocolate, roasted on skewers, with a corona, or just make a cocktail with it… like I did. Don’t waste the top of your pineapple either: Just plant it.

Try this springy pineapple gin cocktail:

What you will need:
4 ounces gin
Club soda
Half a lime
¼ cup pineapple
2 teaspoons agave
10 mint leaves

Muddle gin, pineapple, mint and squeezed lime together. Split between two glasses on ice. Top with club soda. Take it outside and soak up the sun.

Also:
Caring for your pineapple:
After picked, pineapples do not ripen. But it will become softer and juicier if you let it sit out a day or two in room temperature before cutting it. Technically it’s rotting… The best kind of rotting!
Picking your pineapple:
Pineapples from Hawaii or Central America are your best bet. They tend to be fresher.
Why are they good for you?
Pineapples contain vitamin C and the enzyme bromelain.

Tinted albumen photograph of Hawaiian pineapple field in the 1880s by Danish-born amateur photographer Christian Hedemann found on Wikipedia