I love it when food makes an appearance in folktales or mythology.  Trouble’s about to descend on River City.  When Rapunzel’s pregnant mother wakes in the night, craving broccoli rabe, we know her husband is in for a rough go.  When ravenous Persephone, kidnapped by Hades, is brought face-to-hungry-stomach with a pomegranate, ominous minor chords …