 |  | | | Dates | 9 Jan 2007 | | |
The shops are full of post-Christmas fare at the moment and one of the seasonal delights on the shelves is fresh dates. The food writer Diana Henry thinks they’ve been given a bad press, and she’s intent on their renaissance.
In the Islamic story of creation, when Allah came to make the date palm he made it not out of the same clay he used for other trees but from some of the material he had left over after making the first human. It’s known as the “tree of life” in the Bible, and the palm is often shown in carvings from the earliest period of the Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilisations, where dates were a staple food.
Diana Henry tempts our reporter Anna McNamee with a few dates. | |
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