Pecans weren’t always holiday pie royalty 🥧
They spent thousands of years being traded, poached, ignored and reinvented. But they’re nutritious and versatile and even went to the Moon on Apollo missions (yes, literally 🚀)
https://theconversation.com/how-pecans-went-from-ignored-trees-to-a-holiday-staple-the-8-000-year-history-of-americas-only-native-major-nut-crop-268976
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