Deconstruction
Pomegranates are delicious this time of year. Here's a triptych of three stages of deconstruction. The trick to extracting the seeds is very simple. A video on how it's done can be found here: www.wimp.com/correctway/
The fruit extracted from this single pomegranate yielded ~475ml (1/2 quart).
The name pomegranate derives from medieval Latin pōmum "apple" and grānātum "seeded". Perhaps stemming from the old French word for the fruit, pomme-grenade, the pomegranate was known in early English as "apple of Grenada"—a term which today survives only in heraldic blazons. This is a folk etymology, confusing Latin granatus with the name of the Spanish city of Granada, which derives from Arabic.
Garnet derives from Old French grenat by metathesis, from Medieval Latin granatum as used in a different meaning "of a dark red color". This derivation may have originated from pomum granatum describing the color of pomegranate pulp or from granum referring to "red dye, cochineal".
The French term grenade for pomegranate has given its name to the military grenade.
Source: Wikipedia
Deconstruction
Pomegranates are delicious this time of year. Here's a triptych of three stages of deconstruction. The trick to extracting the seeds is very simple. A video on how it's done can be found here: www.wimp.com/correctway/
The fruit extracted from this single pomegranate yielded ~475ml (1/2 quart).
The name pomegranate derives from medieval Latin pōmum "apple" and grānātum "seeded". Perhaps stemming from the old French word for the fruit, pomme-grenade, the pomegranate was known in early English as "apple of Grenada"—a term which today survives only in heraldic blazons. This is a folk etymology, confusing Latin granatus with the name of the Spanish city of Granada, which derives from Arabic.
Garnet derives from Old French grenat by metathesis, from Medieval Latin granatum as used in a different meaning "of a dark red color". This derivation may have originated from pomum granatum describing the color of pomegranate pulp or from granum referring to "red dye, cochineal".
The French term grenade for pomegranate has given its name to the military grenade.
Source: Wikipedia