So many seeds, how do you get them out? Well, it depends on who you talk to.
My friend rolls and rolls it, pushing the tough red skin into the table. Taking a long sharp knife, she cuts around the “equator” and inelegantly pulls it apart. The red seeds squirt red blood. But it is now easy to crack and flake off the seeds into a bowl.
Another person, sharpens a paring knife and makes many cuts from stem to bottom hoping to hit the white fleshy spines. Peeling back the red leathery skin reveals small rubies tucked into cottony softness. And yet somehow, this person can gently pull off all the red precious stones into a bowl.
A third person, cuts the red globe in half from top to bottom and soaks the two parts in cold water. The clear water turns bright red. The idea is the white flesh will absorb the water, releasing the seeds.
And the last person puts a glob of hot, molten glass on the end of steel tube. She sticks it into a fire, takes it out and gently blows like a reeded instrument. A red ball emerges, no seeds, but a beautiful, everlasting pomegranate is harvested.
