One winter, around the time I was tinkering again with recipes for fragrant fir needles, I received a gift of beautifully packaged pistachios. The nuts were tiny and perfect, grown in Afghanistan. The trees—Pistacia vera—are native to the Middle East, Asia Minor, and Central Asia, and they are related to mastic, sumac, and cashews. The […]
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