{"id":1033,"date":"2008-12-02T17:07:27","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T00:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2008-12-02T17:07:27","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T00:07:27","slug":"what-theyre-eating-in-the-south-of-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1033","title":{"rendered":"What they&#039;re eating in the south of France #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_2793.JPG' title='img_2793.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_2793.JPG' alt='img_2793.JPG' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A friend in Perpignan sends an email with the subject &#8220;The slaughtering of a Pomelo&#8221; with three photographs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Remark,&#8221; she writes, &#8220;how great a part of the Pomelo constitutes skin and albedo,&#8221; sending me to the dictionary, because I&#8217;ve only encountered the term &#8220;albedo&#8221; in technical discussions of global warming. Note also that, in the south of France, especially when a fruit or vegetable is head-shaped, like a pumpkin or a cabbage, they speak of &#8220;slaughtering&#8221; it or &#8220;killing&#8221; it, as some of us do here.<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;ve seen pomelos in grocery stores in California, but I have not seen one in North Carolina. As for this poor pomelo that met its death in Perpignan, I believe it was imported from China.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_2794.JPG' title='img_2794.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_2794.JPG' alt='img_2794.JPG' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_2796.JPG' title='img_2796.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/img_2796.JPG' alt='img_2796.JPG' \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend in Perpignan sends an email with the subject &#8220;The slaughtering of a Pomelo&#8221; with three photographs. &#8220;Remark,&#8221; she writes, &#8220;how great a part of the Pomelo constitutes skin and albedo,&#8221; sending me to the dictionary, because I&#8217;ve only encountered the term &#8220;albedo&#8221; in technical discussions of global warming. Note also that, in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1033\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What they&#039;re eating in the south of France #1&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}