Amadeo Obici Many people in America have come to know and love the business that is now called “Planters.” However, very few will recognize the name of Amadeo Obici, the man who started it. Amadeo came to Pennsylvania as an immigrant teenager in the late 1800s. It was during these years he spent in Wilkes-Barre, […]
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Pine Trees Make Nuts? When we first began cooking with pine nuts, we didn’t know much about where they actually came from. The pine tree wasn’t a tree that was correlated with food. Little did we know that delicious pine nuts were lurking within the pine trees as well as on the ground beneath them.
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Although the pecan has a long history in North America, Georgia farmers were relatively latecomers in realizing its value as a commercial crop. The first orchards were planted in the early 1800s. It was not until the late nineteenth century that the pecan industry began to take off. Pecan trees are native to North America, and archeological
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It’s common knowledge that fruit is good for our bodies. Having plenty of health benefits. However, their importance isn’t just physical. It’s also cultural. For thousands of years, the fruit has played an essential role in the media. From ancient religious texts to more modern works, fruit in literature represents more significant ideas. These ideas
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Blue Diamond Growers started in 1910 as a processing and marketing co-op for California almond growers. Today, there are six thousand almond farmers in California. Thirty five hundred of those farmers bring their product to the ninety-six-acre Blue Diamond processing facility. In peak season, twelve hundred workers run the lines for sixteen hours a day.
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The American Praline is a smooth, sweet substance made by boiling nuts in sugar and grinding the mixture. Used primarily as a filling for chocolates. It can also be a crisp, semi-crisp candy typically consisting of butter, brown sugar, and pecans. Indeed a delicious treat either way. Marshal du Plessis-Praslin The praline was initially inspired
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What is a Nut? Inside the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, we can find the technical and fundamental definitions: In a more mainstream version, they are often defined as the dry, one-seeded fruit from various trees or bushes. It is edible but may require cooking to get there in some cases. They also come in a shell, usually
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The rich and highly-nutritious Macadamia Nut originates from northeast Australia. Macadamia trees once grew around a mountain in modern-day Queensland, Australia. Let it be known that Australia’s First Nations Peoples have lived here for about 65,000 years and ate nuts from various species of plants that we now call macadamias. Indigenous Australians were the first
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Hurricanes are one of nature’s most powerful and terrifying concoctions. Storms such as Katrina and Harvey continue to impact those involved many years later. Even storms whose effects didn’t reach quite as far, such as Marco, certainly are not anything to mess with. Dorian, the most recent storm to terrorize the Caribbean, was no different.
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Scott Gottlieb was the head of the FDA for two years from May 2017 to May 2019. The FDA has now named Doctor Norman Sharpless to replace Scott Gottlieb as the acting commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. Doctor Norman Sharpless held a previous role as the Head Of The National Cancer Institute. Sharpless
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