re: NOLA restaurant news -- Besh and Alon Shaya parting ways

Or maybe because the pomegranate is a symbol of rebirth....Persephone eats six pomegranate seeds offered by Hades, and thus spends 6 months n the underworld and six months with the living. It's woven throughout Mediterranean mythology, from ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome to Persia and Armenia.

Also, they have beautiful carnation like flowers in the spring.