Pomegranates (romaan) are one of the joys of life. I really don’t know why I’d never tried them before. The juice, yes, but never the whole fruit. I guess they seemed a little difficult to navigate. But a couple of months ago I was at the fruit seller and spied a mound of pomegranates. I pointed to the box and asked the fruit seller if they were nice to eat. “Aaah, helw, helw,” he said (beautiful). So I picked one up, turned it between my hands, and asked him how to eat it.
He took it from me and split it open easily, ripping it apart with his bare hands, holding one half and handing me the other. He showed me how to bend the flesh back to make the seeds pop up so they could be effortlessly fished out and eaten. He brought the pomegranate up to his mouth and took a bite. I had expected a verbal explanation, not a theatrical demonstration. So I did as he had done, first bending back the flesh to expose the seeds and then, feeling a little self-conscious and awkward with him eagerly watching me, took a tentative bite. The seeds burst between my teeth as I slowly bit into them, and I thought I would die of pleasure. The sensation was exhilarating! How have I never experienced this before? I wondered. My God, this is amazing! All my bashfulness vanished and I took another bite, even better than the first, with the fruit seller standing by with a huge grin on his face.
Life just seems a little different with pomegranates in it.
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Pomegrantes are jewels from Heaven. Try them with some spinach, pears, and feta in a salad. Oh yummy.
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I am definitely going to try that!
ReplyDeletePomegranates originally come from Iran - one of those useless bits of trivia I picked up somewhere along the way. They are used a lot in Iranian sauces.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the trivia Ian. I didn't know that, but for some reason it seems like that's where they should come from :)
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