{"id":2145,"date":"2008-05-21T03:26:15","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T07:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/?p=2145"},"modified":"2017-08-18T18:02:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T18:02:33","slug":"curated-fruits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/2008\/05\/21\/curated-fruits\/","title":{"rendered":"Curated Fruits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/julianbleecker\/2490244726\/\" title=\"20080512_13-28-15 by JulianBleecker, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3044\/2490244726_893d5fb039.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"20080512_13-28-15\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fresh&#8221; fruit sold in a posh Tokyo Midtown supermarket. Brilliant symmetries and perfections and curious delicate packing. Sorted and curated specimens. At dinner that night, I was told that Japan basically imports all of its fruit, so it becomes rather like something precious. Perhaps the plastic\/foam packaging implies this delicate character of the fruit, as much as it likely serves to protect the fruit from bruising during shipment from more tropical climates. Any proper farmer&#8217;s market will quickly remind you that fruit does not look like this at all. It is often quite unsymmetrical and quite more &#8220;natural&#8221; colors \u2014 not looking like a sample of Pantone process inks. The only thing fresh about this fruit, I&#8217;m fairly certain, is that it&#8217;s just ripened after a hop over from, say, the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>In the midst of a world-wide food crisis \u2014 hoarding, plain lack, prices adjusted upward to account for increasing transportation\/fuel costs \u2014\u00a0such staples as fruit may likely become even more precious than what this image suggests. Soylent Green anybody?<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Fresh&#8221; fruit sold in a posh Tokyo Midtown supermarket. Brilliant symmetries and perfections and curious delicate packing. Sorted and curated specimens. At dinner that night, I was told that Japan basically imports all of its fruit, so it becomes rather like something precious. 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