Dates growing on Hannah, a tree germinated from ancient seeds in Israel. Photo Credit: Photo by Marcos Schonholz/Arava Institute.
So how do they taste?
Buy a package of pitted dates, stuff each one with an almond, wrap with half a slice of thin bacon, place on cookie sheet and cook at 425 degrees for 20 minutes. You will like.
FRESH!!
Not wizened and desiccated as you would expect.
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I remember reading when they found the seeds and were trying to get them to grow. Good to hear they were able to get them to fruit.
Where can I buy some?
“Lovely,” says Sallon. “I find Medjoul dates too sticky sweet. Hannah’s are blander and drier, with a honey aftertaste that makes me think of the land of milk and honey.”
The date experts at Kibbutz Keturah say they taste like the Zahidi species of Iraqi dates. That makes sense, as Hannah is genetically related to a species that grew in Babylon—present-day Iraq. “Domesticating the date palm for cultivation started around 6,000 years ago in Babylon and in the Arabian Peninsula,” Sallon explains. “Methuselah and Adam, from Masada, are very Arabian-like and are more than 2,000 years old. Hannah is more Iraqi. We presume she was brought by the exiles coming back after the First Temple was destroyed, because the Talmud tells us that Judean exiles worked in date plantations in Babylon.”
If they really want an old fruit, I think Barney Frank is looking for something to do.
...tasted since the times of Jesus and the Maccabees...
...written between 150 BCE and 70 CE.
Is it just me?
...tasted since the times of Jesus and the Maccabees...
...written between 150 BCE and 70 CE.
Is it just me?
“Sallon, a pediatric gastroenterologist at Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem from 1983 to 2000, founded the Louis L. Borick Natural Medicine Research Center at the hospital in 1995. For the past 15 years, she’s focused full time on how plants could be used as medicine.”
That is just too old to date. If they are older than Grandpappy, I’m out.
