Tropical Getaway—Baby Pineapple with Coconut Rice Pudding

Tropical getaway: Poached baby pineapple in white pepper syrup, enclosing jasmine-coconut rice pudding, with tuile garnish, caramel-rum sauce, and toasted coconut shards. This dessert all but evokes the hypnotic sound of swaying palms on a beach in some tropical paradise. Fragrant Thai jasmine rice, a long-grain variety, lends just enough starch to the cooking liquid in the pudding to thicken it lightly. White p