Celebrate Pistachios on BOTH National Pistachio Day and World Pistachio Day, but love them all year long!
Hard to believe, but it wasn’t until 1976 that Americans harvested the first commercial crop of pistachios. They had been enjoying the nut since about the 1800s, but it was not until the 1930s that the love for pistachios really took off. What may have skyrocketed it up in popularity though, is the invention of pistachio ice cream in the 1940s by James W. Parkinson of Philadelphia. Today, California produces […]
