Foreign Fruit
A Personal History of the Orange
"A sharp-sweet memoir of change, identity and hybridity. I loved it."
― Katherine May, author of Wintering
Per 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 Goh. Katie follows the complicated history of the orange from east-to-west and west-to-east, from a luxury item of European kings and Chinese emperors,…
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May 6, 2025KATIE GOH is a writer and editor at Extra Teeth literary magazine. She writes about culture and social issues for publications including i-D, the Guardian, Independent, VICE, Huck, Nylon, Dazed, and Crack. Her writing has been shortlisted for BBC Scotland and Wigtown Book Festival’s Anne Brown Essay Prize, PPA Scotland’s Young Journalist of the Year Award and the University of Glasgow’s Kavya Prize. Katie became a member of the UK Critics Circle in 2020 and her book of essays The End: Surviving the World Through Imagined Disasters was a Reviewer’s Choice for Big Issue’s Independent Books of 2021 and shortlisted for the inaugural Kavya Prize in 2022. She currently lives in Edinburgh.
