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How to eat a pomegranate

While the fall holidays may be over, fortunately the pomegranates aren’t. You can still find them in abundance, and prices are dropping to incredible lows — four shekels a kilo. We have a whole heap of discount pomegranates in the kitchen. And they’re lovely.

I was hoping to come up with some creative pomegranate recipe for the holiday, but we couldn’t seem to keep ourselves from eating the fruit before I got to cook with them. But actually, that’s fine with me — pomegranate seeds are a trendy condiment tossed over all sorts of dishes, such as roasted eggplant; mixed into tabbouleh; and as an addition to salads. All decent combinations, but none beat the unadulterated punch of just biting straight into a row of juicy seeds, straight from the fruit.

There are probably a million techniques for breaking open the pomegranate itself, in order to get at those seeds. When I lived in Haifa, the popular method involved throwing the pomegranate at the ground, a not-so-gentle reminder that rimon, the pomegranate’s Hebrew name, also means grenade. Continue reading How to eat a pomegranate …

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