Pomegranate

1 Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner (London, 2003), pp. 80–81.

2 Ibid., p. 24.

3 William Sayoran, My Name is Aram (San Diego, CA, 1940), p. 27.

4 Ibid., p. 39.

5 Ibid., p. 42.

Select Bibliography

Abram, Mary, ‘The Pomegranate: Sacred, Secular, and Sensuous Symbol of Ancient Israel’, Studia antiqua, VII/1 (2009)

Ashton, Richard, with Barbara Baer and David Silverstein, eds, The Incredible Pomegranate (Tempe, AZ, 2006)

Goor, Asaph, ‘The History of the Pomegranate in The Holy Land’, Economic Botany, XXI/3 (1967)

Immerwahr, Sara, ‘The Pomegranate Vase: Its Origins and Continuity’, Hesperia, LVIII/4 (1989)

Lazongas, Efthymios G., ‘Personification in Myth and Cult: Side, the Personification of the Pomegranate’, in Personification in the Greek World, ed. Emma Stafford and Judith Herrin (Farnham, 2005)

Levin, Gregory, Pomegranate Roads: A Soviet Botanist’s Exile from Eden (Forestville, CA, 2006)

Muthmann, Friedrich, Der Granatapfel (Bern, 1982)

Riddle, John M., Goddesses, Elixirs, and Witches: Plants and Sexuality Throughout Human History (New York, 2010)

Seeram, Navindra P., with Risa N. Schulman and David Heber, eds, Pomegranates: Ancient Roots to Modern Medicine (Boca Raton, FL, 2006)

Websites and Associations

A very informative website on pomegranates put out by the University of Florida

www.crec.ifas.ufl.edu/extension/pomegranates

Aril Systems

Promotional website of a pomegranate seed-extractor machine

www.arilsystem.com

Pom Wonderful

Leading American distributor

www.pomwonderful.com

Pomlife

Australian distributor

www.pomlife.com.au

Website of the Pomegranate Council. Notable are pages on crafts (make your own pomegranate wreath!) and recipes

www.pomegranates.org

Acknowledgements

This book is dedicated to my mother, who always gave me books and took me to museums. Writing it wouldn’t have been possible without the help and support of many people. A big thanks to editor Andy Smith, and everyone at Reaktion Books for being most helpful throughout this project. Many thanks to all of my family and friends who listened politely and made suggestions, while I rambled on about pomegranates. Of note are the contributions of Clementine Sugita, Wendy Stone, Geoffrey Page, Louise Pryke and Beatrice McLoughlin. A special thanks goes to Rebecca Psarras for pointing me in the direction of (and helping me consume) a variety of pomegranate products.

Thank you to the artists and museums who have allowed use of their images throughout this work. Gratitude is also due to recipe contributors Barbara Chung, Maria Benardis, Ivan Day and Zerrin Gunaydin.

Photo Acknowledgements

The author and the publishers wish to express their thanks to the below sources of illustrative material and/or permission to reproduce it.

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