Happy Almond Day: Links about nuts
Feb. 16th, 2024 06:02 pmAlmonds
How Almonds Went From Deadly To Delicious: Over time, farmers have bred domesticated almond trees to produce mostly sweet seeds. But wild almonds helped us out — and now we know just how they went from deadly to delicious.
Almond Joy, Stone Age Style: Our ancestors had a bash eating wild nuts: Around 780,000 years ago, human ancestors living along a lakeshore in what is now northern Israel ate a varied diet. It included fat- and protein-rich almonds, pistachios, and other hard-shelled nuts, according to a new report.
Walnuts
Walnuts and the First Forest Farms: Scientists mapping both walnut forests and languages have discovered close relationships between the two along the major Silk Road routes, evidence that the spread of walnut trees was due at least as much—or more—to humans as to nature.
Walnuts Through Time: Brain Food, Poison, Money, Muse Walnuts are different things to different people and cultures.
Cashew
Monkeys in Brazil have used stone tools for hundreds of years at least
Where Does Cashew Chicken Come From?: Think less Sichuan Province and more…Springfield, Missouri?
Pistachio
Pistachios wallop walnuts as the toughest nut to crack: Microscopic 3D puzzles are a “holy grail” of material strength
How Almonds Went From Deadly To Delicious: Over time, farmers have bred domesticated almond trees to produce mostly sweet seeds. But wild almonds helped us out — and now we know just how they went from deadly to delicious.
Almond Joy, Stone Age Style: Our ancestors had a bash eating wild nuts: Around 780,000 years ago, human ancestors living along a lakeshore in what is now northern Israel ate a varied diet. It included fat- and protein-rich almonds, pistachios, and other hard-shelled nuts, according to a new report.
Walnuts
Walnuts and the First Forest Farms: Scientists mapping both walnut forests and languages have discovered close relationships between the two along the major Silk Road routes, evidence that the spread of walnut trees was due at least as much—or more—to humans as to nature.
Walnuts Through Time: Brain Food, Poison, Money, Muse Walnuts are different things to different people and cultures.
Cashew
Monkeys in Brazil have used stone tools for hundreds of years at least
Where Does Cashew Chicken Come From?: Think less Sichuan Province and more…Springfield, Missouri?
Pistachio
America’s Pistachio Industry Came From a Single Seed: A “plant explorer” helped establish the crop in California.
Pistachios wallop walnuts as the toughest nut to crack: Microscopic 3D puzzles are a “holy grail” of material strength