A quick history of grapefruit and salt

Why do Americans eat grapefruit with salt? Turns out, the history goes back to World War I but there’s also chemistry at play.

I had the pleasure of working with comic artist and illustrator Joy Ho to create the imagery for this feature. We conceptualized each illustration to work with a key point in the fruit’s history and then sketched the layout for each one. I photographed in the studio and Joy later drew over each photograph. The color palette was designed to be visually tart.

If you want to see more behind the scenes on how we went about it, check out this NPR Illustration Tumblr post we wrote about the process.