With the Jewish New Year just a flip of the calendar away, the pomegranate (Hebrew: Rimon) is everywhere: all over the market and hanging from neighbourhood trees.
Pomegranates grace the table at Jewish New Year - Rosh Hashannah - because they symbolize prosperity. In Christianity the pomegranate symbolizes Jesus' suffering and resurrection.
You would have to have been hiding under a rock in North America for the last decade to not know the pomegranate and, of course, its nutritive value; the fruit has been well marketed as essential to the diet for all the vitamins and antioxidants it includes. Pomegranate martini anyone?
Fortunately, here the focus is on enjoying a yummy seasonal fruit that may grow in your yard. Pomegranates are not fast to prepare; you don't grab one on the way out the door to munch at the bus stop. Peeling a pomegranate and picking the seeds off the internal skin takes some time, although there are better and worse techniques for this. The easiest way (with the least muss and fuss) to consume pomegranate is in juice form. Here, many folks have at home a pomegranate juicer which looks something like a citrus reamer with a top press that can be levered down to squeeze all the goodness out of half a pomegranate.
Pomegranates are in the Myrtales family, not a flowering plant family overflowing with edible fruits. Cousins to the pomegranate include guavas, cloves, allspice, and eucalyptus.
Pomegranates grace the table at Jewish New Year - Rosh Hashannah - because they symbolize prosperity. In Christianity the pomegranate symbolizes Jesus' suffering and resurrection.
You would have to have been hiding under a rock in North America for the last decade to not know the pomegranate and, of course, its nutritive value; the fruit has been well marketed as essential to the diet for all the vitamins and antioxidants it includes. Pomegranate martini anyone?
Fortunately, here the focus is on enjoying a yummy seasonal fruit that may grow in your yard. Pomegranates are not fast to prepare; you don't grab one on the way out the door to munch at the bus stop. Peeling a pomegranate and picking the seeds off the internal skin takes some time, although there are better and worse techniques for this. The easiest way (with the least muss and fuss) to consume pomegranate is in juice form. Here, many folks have at home a pomegranate juicer which looks something like a citrus reamer with a top press that can be levered down to squeeze all the goodness out of half a pomegranate.
Pomegranates are in the Myrtales family, not a flowering plant family overflowing with edible fruits. Cousins to the pomegranate include guavas, cloves, allspice, and eucalyptus.
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