Go beyond the basic and bland in this rewarding collection of favorite foods, culture, and culinary memories! Special dishes intertwine with the past, family, and tastes of home. This prix-fixe meal includes fried chicken, bacon dipped in cheese in a roll with hot sauce, avocado toast, and the best ice cream in the entire multiverse!

— Simon Traub-Epstein, International Library of Young Authors

From the publisher: “You are Eating a Pomegranate is an invitation into the hungry, tasty, spicy, salty, ooey, gooey, melty, crunchy world of P.S. 316 Elijah G. Stroud Elementary’s fifth grade creative writing students. This volume includes argumentative essays on the definitive foods that represent them, inspire them, and make them drool. Inside, you’ll find essays about a diverse and stomach rumbling array of foods including, but most definitely not limited to: sushi, oxtail stew, Takis, chopped cheese, molecular ramen, spaghetti and meatballs, jerk chicken, water, pomegranates, and lobster! Join us on this delicious adventure.”