Anyway – pomegranates! How beautiful your photo at the top is. I enjoyed reading about them. I have some dried pomegranate seeds that are used in Indian cooking to add that note of sourness to dishes (used in some regions instead of tamarind or lemon juice). I really don’t know a lot about how to use them, and had taken them out of the cupboard this morning to try and find some more information. Now to read your post on the fresh, live, really red fruit – it is just lovely.

@ sage – Aren’t food memories wonderful? One thing I appreciate about pomegranates is that they still actually have a season.

@ Caroline You’re in for a treat! Glad I could help. They look good in arrangements too (the whole fruit with dried flowers, etc.). Happy shopping – I still miss Giant and even, at times, the Social Safeway.

My Grandpa was born and raised in Arizona. Came up here in the very early 1900s and brought his love of pomegranates with him. They were a special treat at Christmas my entire life.

It seems so exoctic to me to see them in the grocery now for so many months of the year.