nar (pomegranate)
At the Kadıköy market today. Last December I violated EU and US agricultural import-restriction laws to bring some of these to a friend in Oxford and to my youngest sister in Seattle, but apparently they're checking luggage more closely this year because of bird flu paranoia. Alas.
posted by kitabet at 1:11 PM
2 Comments:
And pomegranates are notorious spreaders of avian ilnesses...
On its skirts you shall make pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet stuff, around its skirts, with bells of gold between them,
a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, round about on the skirts of the robe. (Exodus 28: 33-4)
:) ... who else but your holy S
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