ISSUE 2, NUTS, Part 6: Pecans

Pecans

Pecans

Though most of the South now regards the pecan (Carya illinoioinensis)as a “home” nut and pecan pie as a pan-southern dessert, in reality the Native range of the pecan was limited to a rather constricted region of the Gulf coast from East Texas into Mississippi and up the Mississippi River Valley.  The commercial cultivation of pecans dates from …