almonds

How Almonds Went From Deadly To Delicious - npr St. Basil's Hexaemeron, a Christian text from around the fourth century, contains a curious botanical instruction: Pierce an almond tree in the trunk near its roots, stick a "fat plug of pine" into its center — and its almond seeds will undergo a...

Petition Seeks to Give Almonds Their Own Emoji - Food and Wine The chestnut has an emoji, so why not? Frank Zappa famously quipped that you can’t be a real country unless you have a beer. Well, a modern spin on that concept might be that you can’t be a real food unless you have an emoji...