http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/2009/01/03/pomegranates-50-years-a-family-tradition/ Culinary Rants & Raves from Bay Area Foodies and Professionals Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:41:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/2009/01/03/pomegranates-50-years-a-family-tradition/comment-page-1/#comment-11256 Denise Lincoln Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:08:29 +0000 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/2009/01/03/pomegranates-50-years-a-family-tradition/#comment-11256 When I was a kid, my friends and I would sneak into the neighbors yard to filch some of the abundant pomegranates growing behind their house. They had a family of ducks (I grew up in the country) that would attack us as we tried to crawl behind the bushes. It was only later, when I was a teenager, that the people who lived in the house told me how much fun they would have watching the neighborhood kids get attacked by the birds only to steal a bunch of fruit they would have gladly given us for free. Since then, I always think fondly of pomegranates, but am amazed by how much they cost at the store. How can I pay $3.00 a fruit when it used to only cost me two duck bites? When I was a kid, my friends and I would sneak into the neighbors yard to filch some of the abundant pomegranates growing behind their house. They had a family of ducks (I grew up in the country) that would attack us as we tried to crawl behind the bushes. It was only later, when I was a teenager, that the people who lived in the house told me how much fun they would have watching the neighborhood kids get attacked by the birds only to steal a bunch of fruit they would have gladly given us for free. Since then, I always think fondly of pomegranates, but am amazed by how much they cost at the store. How can I pay $3.00 a fruit when it used to only cost me two duck bites?

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