When setting out to make creamy pistachio nut butter ... it is more common to find packages of these nuts still in their shell. Unlike other nuts like almonds and cashews that must be deshelled ...

Bakeries in Hong Kong are jumping on the pistachio trend by making sweet treats with the nut for Lunar New Year. Pistachios ...

The nuts must then dry under the sun to help draw out some of the shell's caustic liquid. The most difficult and dangerous step is splitting open the nut, since toxic oil still coats the drupes.

A nut is the edible seed or fruit of a plant, usually surrounded by a hard or brittle shell. Rather like an egg is to a new chick, a nut helps a new plant to grow thanks to its power-pack of ...