Why You Should Eat Watermelon Seeds, Rind, and Flesh

Watermelon offers a simple pleasure. It also offers something more practical.
Why You Should Eat Watermelon Seeds, Rind, and Flesh
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Watermelon is one of summer’s most recognisable rituals.

It arrives cold from the fridge, its green skin splitting open to reveal that unmistakable expanse of red. We eat it with the mild urgency of people who understand that cold watermelon is one of life’s few uncomplicated joys, somewhere between jumping into the ocean on a hot day and finding ten dollars in a coat pocket you do not remember owning.

Nicole James
Nicole James
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Nicole James is a freelance journalist for The Epoch Times based in Australia. She is an award-winning short story writer, journalist, columnist, and editor. Her work has appeared in newspapers including The Sydney Morning Herald, Sun-Herald, The Australian, the Sunday Times, and the Sunday Telegraph. She holds a BA Communications majoring in journalism and two post graduate degrees, one in creative writing.