Tuesday, July 15, 2014

What To Do With Pecans For Sale

By Coleen Torres


Nuts are known for their valuable nutrients. Pecans for sale are packed with plant sterols, omega-6 fatty acids and age-busting antioxidants. Eating just a small handful each day has the same cholesterol-reducing power as commercial pharmaceutical cholesterol drugs. What better excuse could a person want for eating pecan pie topped with butter pecan ice cream.

Biologically speaking, the pecan is a drupe and not a nut. A drupe is a type of fruit that has a seed surrounded by a hard shell, a fleshy medium layer and a skin. Unlike other drupes like the peach, apricot, cherry, plum, damson and nectarine, pecan "seeds" may be eaten.

The seeds of the pecan drupe have a sweet, buttery taste. They may be eaten fresh or cooked into pies and other sweet desserts. Pecan is an Algonquin word meaning a "nut that you need to crack with a rock". Burned, the wood is used to flavor barbecued meat. Pecan tree wood is good for furniture-making and for making into hardwood flooring.

Albany, in the southwest of Georgia, is the center of this state's production of this delightful nut. Other Georgian delicacies include peaches, peanuts, cotton, rye, timber (especially pine), tobacco, hogs and poultry. Atlanta, Georgia, is the home of one of America's (and the world's) favorite cola drinks. Georgia also gave us President Jimmy Carter, the novel, "Gone With the Wind, " and "The Dukes of Hazzard."

The Heart of Dixie, Alabama, the yellowhammer state, is also a pecan producing state. Also from the Cotton State come sorghum, soybeans and peanuts. Roughly 20 million tourists visit Alabama every year. Of these, about 100,000 come from abroad, i. E., Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan and Canada. The first rocket ship that carried man to the moon; that was made by Alabama workers.

The northernmost state where pecan trees may be found is Iowa, the heartland of America. Other major products include corn and ethanol, but the state also products soybeans, oats, cattle and hogs. Non-agricultural sectors that bring in capital to the state are insurance and finance.

Another American state where you will find pecan trees is Louisiana. This intriguing gulf state also brought us the New Orleans Saints, Mardis Gras, the Superdome and lots of interesting geological history. With a rich French heritage, Louisiana carries on the French system of electoral practices. Here, you will also find the praline, another luscious delicacy featuring the pecan.

Two months out of each year, October and November, are spent preparing for the annual Pecan Festival. First, in October, the Louisiana Pecan Festival Beauty and Beau pageant is held to name a king and queen to rein over November's Pecan Festival. Between sixty and seventy thousand people attend every year. The amount of tourist dollars they bring in could hardly be described as peanuts.




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