When the tropics came North: how exotic fruits conquered Finnish plates in the times of empires
Kylli, Ritva (2025-06-30)
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Kylli, R. (2025). When the tropics came North. In I. Berti, S. Magagnoli, P. Scholliers, & P. J. Atkins (Eds.), European Empires on a Plate (1st ed., pp. 31–44). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003514435-3
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© 2025 The author. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in European Empires on a Plate: c. 1750–Today on 30 June 2025, available at: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003514435-3
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© 2025 The author. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in European Empires on a Plate: c. 1750–Today on 30 June 2025, available at: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003514435-3
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Abstract
This chapter gives a long-term overview of the process by which the global spread of tropical fruits became integrated into the diet of people living in Finland. Newspapers serve as primary sources, and on the basis of cookbooks, it is possible to study when tropical fruits stopped being a luxury and became a vitamin-rich necessity. The establishment of banana plantations in Jamaica was reflected in their supply in Finland during the early twentieth century, when the first advertisements for fresh bananas appeared in newspapers. Major changes in the environment of banana production areas were reported but, above all, the newspapers concentrated on the healthiness of bananas and their significance as ‘the best nutrient in the world’. Finland never had control over any overseas territories, but it had colonial shops. Since the 1920s, people in Finland tried to get rid of the memory of belonging to the Russian Empire (also in food-related names and products), but at the same time they benefited from the colonies of Western European empires and the large fruit companies. The main question of this chapter is: What was the role of a small northern country among the European countries in the time of Empires?
This chapter gives a long-term overview of the process by which the global spread of tropical fruits became integrated into the diet of people living in Finland. Newspapers serve as primary sources, and on the basis of cookbooks, it is possible to study when tropical fruits stopped being a luxury and became a vitamin-rich necessity. The establishment of banana plantations in Jamaica was reflected in their supply in Finland during the early twentieth century, when the first advertisements for fresh bananas appeared in newspapers. Major changes in the environment of banana production areas were reported but, above all, the newspapers concentrated on the healthiness of bananas and their significance as ‘the best nutrient in the world’. Finland never had control over any overseas territories, but it had colonial shops. Since the 1920s, people in Finland tried to get rid of the memory of belonging to the Russian Empire (also in food-related names and products), but at the same time they benefited from the colonies of Western European empires and the large fruit companies. The main question of this chapter is: What was the role of a small northern country among the European countries in the time of Empires?
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