Kitchen Table: Holy Cow & The Pomegranate
Performance (English) 20mins
Starting from the pomegranate fruit, Samah invites you to make soup; a delicious recipe from the royal kitchens of the Abbasid Empire over a thousand years ago. Curl up on your couch and enjoy the soup while she weaves through questions and reflections on the metaphors and analogies of food making, memory, and the histories connected to them…inspired by the pomegranate.
Ingredients (feeds 4-6 persons)
3 Fresh pomegranates, seeded
½ cup long grain brown rice
¼ cup sesame seeds
1 tbsp. of grated ginger (or powdered ginger)
2 tsp. cumin
Salt
8 cups water
Some chilli flakes if you like chilli
Put everything in the pot and bring it to a boil, then put down the heat, stir occasionally for 30minutes.
Starting from the pomegranate fruit, Samah invites you to make soup; a delicious recipe from the royal kitchens of the Abbasid Empire over a thousand years ago. Curl up on your couch and enjoy the soup while she weaves through questions and reflections on the metaphors and analogies of food making, memory, and the histories connected to them…inspired by the pomegranate.
Ingredients (feeds 4-6 persons)
3 Fresh pomegranates, seeded
½ cup long grain brown rice
¼ cup sesame seeds
1 tbsp. of grated ginger (or powdered ginger)
2 tsp. cumin
Salt
8 cups water
Some chilli flakes if you like chilli
Put everything in the pot and bring it to a boil, then put down the heat, stir occasionally for 30minutes.