Pistachio nuts are a fall superstar just coming into season. Once considered a rare delicacy, these little green nutrition bombs are now a mainstream must-have. Though we call them nuts, botanically ...

In Iran, a ripe pistachio shell, which typically opens halfway to expose the nut inside, is referred to as khandan, or “laughing,” Alan Davidson writes in “The Penguin Companion to Food.” Pistachio ...

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