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Nuts Over Nuts
Mezos Roastery cashes in on cashew and other delights BY CORBIN STEWART
THE FIRST RECORD of nuts in
the hu ma n diet ca n be traced back to over 780,000 years ago, according to archeologists who recently d iscovered va rieties of a l monds, water chestnuts, acorns, and pistachios in Israel. It is also believed that almonds were one of the earliest cultivated foods, as historians used the Old Testament as a guide to trace their origins to Cyprus and Greece. Pecans, which are native to North America, were recently found in riverbeds in Texas and can be dated back to 6,100 B.C. But what is it about nuts that, well… make people go nuts for them?
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