Pretty, Perfect Pomegranates

My earliest pomegranate memory involves my mother and my brother, after my brother had brought a pomegranate into Lakeside School for show and tell. During his demonstration, he cut the ripe fruit opened and proceeded to try to consume it, only to have his teacher let out a warning shriek that the savory fruit’s seeds were poisonous. (Yes, you heard right, she was a teacher.) My mother, perhaps as a form of protest for the teacher’s ignorance, always kept a pomegranate in the house, rarely consumed, sitting proud and constant in the fruit bowl in the kitchen.

My brother’s teacher clearly had no idea that the Greeks consider the pomegranate to be a symbol of abundance and good luck, often making an appearance in weddings and other festivities.

In China they are associated with fertility, cut open during the wedding ceremony, the seeds inside signifying the amount of sons the couple will have.

In Buddhist mythology, a pomegranate was given to a wicked woman who ate children – and was cured of her horrific evil ways!

It seems as though pomegranates came very much into vogue within the last several years when everyone finally learned their extreme anti-oxidant potential.

Try this recession proof facial scrub made with pomegranate and sugar, a perfect exfoliater and mmm-mmm goodness for your skin. (It smells so delicious, that’s reason enough alone.) It’s so easy, you simply have no excuse.

½ cup pomegranate
½ cup white sugar
2 teaspoons avocado oil

In a small bowl, combine sugar and pomegranate seeds, and crush together with a spoon. Mix in the oil. Massage gently into damp skin, and all over your body, if you feel so inspired.