Last night I was reading the latest issue of Vanity Fair (the one with Dreamgirls on the cover and a really stupid "women aren't funny" article by Christopher Hitchens inside), and I suddenly got a really strong scent of pomegranates. I had no idea where it was coming from until I flipped through the magazine and saw an ad for a pomegranate drink, and it had one of those "lift and smell" flaps that you usually see in cologne ads. Now they're doing it with food and drink. Interesting. Anyway, the smell was overwhelming (in a good way), even when I finished reading the mag and threw it out. I smelled it all last night when I was in bed.
Pomegranates are all the rage now. They're amazingly good for you, they taste good, and there are lots of things you can do with them. The Boston Globe explores the phenomenon.
New York Times Magazine's food issue
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12-11-2006 @ 9:17PM
cmtdrt said...
Ugh. They most certainly do not taste good.
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12-11-2006 @ 11:43PM
Betsy said...
OK, once and for all, how do you really eat a pomegranate? Do you chew the seeds and swallow them, or just suck off the juice and spit the little seeds out?
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12-12-2006 @ 3:46AM
vs said...
One of my favorite fruits! Chew the seeds and swallow them. It is way too difficult to spit them all out. Personally I like to clean all the pieces into a bowl and eat them with a spoon. We have a big tree, so not having enough is never a problem in fall.
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