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The Wholesome Yum Easy Keto Cookbook (Hardcover): Maya Krampf The Wholesome Yum Easy Keto Cookbook (Hardcover)
Maya Krampf
R698 R550 Discovery Miles 5 500 Save R148 (21%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

USA TODAY BESTSELLER • Easy, delicious ketogenic recipes all with ten ingredients or less, from the founder of the mega-popular keto website Wholesome Yum.

“Loaded with family-friendly keto staples that don’t take hours to prepare, this book is a slam dunk for keto beginners and experts alike.”—Mark Sisson, New York Times bestselling author of The Keto Reset Diet and The Primal Blueprint

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BUZZFEED

There's a reason that the ketogenic diet has become so wildly popular: It truly works! And weight loss is just the beginning. Studies have shown that the keto diet stabilizes mood, raises energy levels, controls blood sugar, lowers blood pressure, improves cholesterol, and more.

Unfortunately, many people are intimidated by keto--they don't have a lot of time to cook, they have a whole family to feed, or they worry that they'll miss their favorite meals. That is why Maya Krampf created her now hugely popular website, Wholesome Yum, to share easy keto recipes all with ten ingredients or less. And now, in her first cookbook, Maya is determined to show people that a keto lifestyle does not have to be complicated, time-consuming, unsustainable, or boring.

The Wholesome Yum Easy Keto Cookbook features 100 super-simple, I-can't-believe-that's-keto recipes including flourless chocolate chip peanut butter waffles, sheet pan sausage breakfast sandwiches, crispy keto chicken fingers, spaghetti squash ramen soup, keto garlic bread sticks, cinnamon roll pizza, and much more. You don't have to give up your favorite foods--virtually anything you like to eat can be made keto, and delectably so. The book also features a primer on the keto diet, essential pantry-stocking tips, and a section dedicated to creating Maya's signature "fathead" keto dough that is used to prepare delicious keto breads, pastries, tortillas, and more.

Eat Everything - How to Ditch Additives and Emulsifiers, Heal Your Body, and Reclaim the Joy of Food (Paperback): Dawn Harris... Eat Everything - How to Ditch Additives and Emulsifiers, Heal Your Body, and Reclaim the Joy of Food (Paperback)
Dawn Harris Sherling
R488 R409 Discovery Miles 4 090 Save R79 (16%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Discover the surprising reason restrictive diets don't work-and a practical, science-based guide to reclaim your health through the power of real food. Carbs aren't causing your weight gain. Dairy may not be the reason for your upset stomach. And your liver isn't fatty because of the occasional hamburger. It's time to enjoy eating everything again-and to reclaim our health along the way. Eat Everything offers a better alternative to complicated, minimally effective, and highly restrictive diets. Physician Dawn Harris Sherling lays out compelling new evidence implicating food additives as the real culprits behind diet-related diseases and shares simple, actionable advice to heal. We're constantly told to fear carbs, gluten, and dairy, and we turn to strict diets to solve our health problems. Yet Americans still have one of the highest rates of obesity and diabetes in the world, and millions suffer from digestive ailments like irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Digging into emerging research, Dr. Sherling realized it's not the foods but the food additives, especially emulsifiers, that are at the root of our problems. Our bodies can't digest them, but they feed our microbiomes and they're everywhere in the ultra-processed foods that make up about half of our daily diets. In this refreshing and accessible guide, readers will learn: How to lose weight without a restrictive diet Why so many popular ultra-processed foods are actively harmful to our bodies How to navigate eating at restaurants-for any meal or occasion Tips for filling our grocery bags with real food Why avoiding food additives is beneficial for our bodies and minds How to embrace healthful cooking at home, with 30 delicious recipes Dr. Sherling lays out the research on food additives and offers a straightforward guide to eating just about everything (yes, even bread, pasta, and ice cream!) without pain, worry, or guilt. This isn't just another restrictive diet in disguise; it's a call to rediscover our love of real food.

Emergency Food Storage & Survival Handbook - Everything You Need to Know to Keep Your Family Safe in a Crisis (Paperback, 1st... Emergency Food Storage & Survival Handbook - Everything You Need to Know to Keep Your Family Safe in a Crisis (Paperback, 1st ed)
Peggy Layton
R427 R357 Discovery Miles 3 570 Save R70 (16%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Always Be Prepared
What if your life was disrupted by a natural disaster, food or water supply contamination, or any other type of emergency? Do you have the essentials for you and your family? Do you have a plan in the event that your power, telephone, water and food supply are cut off for an extended amount of time? What if there were no medical or pharmaceutical services available for days, weeks, or months? How prepared are you?
With this guide by your side, you and your family will learn how to plan, purchase, and store a three-month supply of all the necessities—food, water, fuel, first-aid supplies, clothing, bedding, and more—simply and economically. In other words, this book may be a lifesaver.
Inside you'll find 10 steps to an affordable food storage program plus how to:
·Prepare a home "grocery store" and "pharmacy"
·Use what you store and store what you use
·Store water safely and provide for sanitation needs
·Create a first-aid kit, car kit, and 72-hour emergency kit for the whole family
·And many more invaluable hints and tips
"This clear, concise, step-by-step program is not only affordable and doable, it's essential in these uncertain times. Now, everyone from apartment dwellers to basement owners can store a three-month supply of the essentials, including peace of mind!" — Joni Hilton, author of Once-a-Week Cooking Plan and Cooking Secrets My Mother Never Taught Me

Hard to Swallow - A Brief History of Food (Hardcover): Richard W. Lacey Hard to Swallow - A Brief History of Food (Hardcover)
Richard W. Lacey
R2,872 R2,568 Discovery Miles 25 680 Save R304 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

You are what you eat - or are you? What is in food? Where does it come from? Richard Lacey, Professor of Clinical Microbiology at Leeds University and a popular media critic on food issues, takes the reader on a culinary exploration into the world of food. Blending science and humour, he stimulates us to question the future and to think about the nature of what we eat and where it comes from. Richard Lacey is on the side of the consumer, you and me, as he reveals the sinister side of food production and the dangers lurking in the kitchen. The reader is served up with a feast of practical tips on the handling of food. But food is FUN too! Our taste buds work overtime as we are shown how to enjoy food that is delicious, healthy and safe. The overall message is enjoy your food but be aware of the dangers and take care. As you read you will laugh, wince and learn about FOOD.

Oysters - A Celebration in the Raw (Hardcover): Jeremy Sewall, Marion Lear Swaybill Oysters - A Celebration in the Raw (Hardcover)
Jeremy Sewall, Marion Lear Swaybill
R577 R473 Discovery Miles 4 730 Save R104 (18%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Oysters: A Celebration in the Raw is true to its title from start to finish. Chapter One is a primer on all things oyster. Chapter Two introduces readers to legendary oystermen and women from around the country. Chapter Three offers exquisite photographs of more than fifty varieties of North American oysters, along with flavor profiles and their merrior. This book concludes with highlights from the oyster timeline, depictions of oysters in art through the ages and stories of oysters as aphrodisiacs, and parses oyster myths and metaphors. It also features an oyster glossary and resource list. This is the only book of its kind: a definitive visual companion to this iconic, much loved mollusk. Overflowing with gorgeous original photography and fascinating anecdotes, Oysters: A Celebration in the Raw is the perfect book for oyster aficionados and newbies, foodies and chefs of all stripes, lovers of photography and art, the environment, history, and the sea.

Root Cellaring - Natural Cold Storage of Fruits and Vegetables (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Mike Bubel, Nancy Bubel Root Cellaring - Natural Cold Storage of Fruits and Vegetables (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Mike Bubel, Nancy Bubel
R486 R430 Discovery Miles 4 300 Save R56 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Root cellaring, as many people remember but only a few people still practice, is a way of using the earth's naturally cool, stable temperature to store perishable fruits and vegetables. Root cellaring, as Mike and Nancy Bubel explain here, is a no-cost, simple, low-technology, energy-saving way to keep the harvest fresh all year long.

In Root Cellaring, the Bubels tell how to successfully use this natural storage approach. It's the first book devoted entirely to the subject, and it covers the subject with a thoroughness that makes it the only book you'll ever need on root cellaring.

Root Cellaring will tell you:

* How to choose vegetable and fruit varieties that will store best

* Specific individual storage requirements for nearly 100 home garden crops

* How to use root cellars in the country, in the city, and in any environment

* How to build root cellars, indoors and out, big and small, plain and fancy

* Case histories -- reports on the root cellaring techniques and experiences of many households all over North America

Root cellaring need not be strictly a country concept. Though it's often thought of as an adjunct to a large garden, a root cellar can in fact considerably stretch the resources of a small garden, making it easy to grow late succession crops for storage instead of many rows for canning and freezing. Best of all, root cellars can easily fit anywhere. Not everyone can live in the country, but everyone can benefit from natural cold storage.

The Omnivore's Dilemma - A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover): Michael Pollan The Omnivore's Dilemma - A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
Michael Pollan
R769 R672 Discovery Miles 6 720 Save R97 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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What should we have for dinner?" To one degree or another this simple question assails any creature faced with a wide choice of things to eat. Anthropologists call it the omnivore's dilemma. Choosing from among the countless potential foods nature offers, humans have had to learn what is safe, and what isn't--which mushrooms should be avoided, for example, and which berries we can enjoy. Today, as America confronts what can only be described as a national eating disorder, the omnivore's dilemma has returned with an atavistic vengeance. The cornucopia of the modern American supermarket and fast-food outlet has thrown us back on a bewildering landscape where we once again have to worry about which of those tasty-looking morsels might kill us. At the same time we're realizing that our food choices also have profound implications for the health of our environment. "The Omnivore's Dilemma" is bestselling author Michael Pollan's brilliant and eye-opening exploration of these little-known but vitally important dimensions of eating in America.
Pollan has divided "The Omnivore's Dilemma" into three parts, one for each of the food chains that sustain us: industrialized food, alternative or "organic" food, and food people obtain by dint of their own hunting, gathering, or gardening. Pollan follows each food chain literally from the ground up to the table, emphasizing our dynamic coevolutionary relationship with the species we depend on. He concludes each section by sitting down to a meal--at McDonald's, at home with his family sharing a dinner from Whole Foods, and in a revolutionary "beyond organic" farm in Virginia. For each meal he traces the provenance of everything consumed, revealing the hidden components we unwittingly ingest and explaining how our taste for particular foods reflects our environmental and biological inheritance.
We are indeed what we eat-and what we eat remakes the world. A society of voracious and increasingly confused omnivores, we are just beginning to recognize the profound consequences of the simplest everyday food choices, both for ourselves and for the natural world. "The Omnivore's Dilemma" is a long-overdue book and one that will become known for bringing a completely fresh perspective to a question as ordinary and yet momentous as What shall we have for dinner?

A few facts and figures from "The Omnivore's Dilemma" Of the 38 ingredients it takes to make a McNugget, there are at least 13 that are derived from corn. 45 different menu items at Mcdonald's are made from corn.One in every three American children eats fast food every day.One in every five American meals today is eaten in the car.The food industry burns nearly a fifth of all the petroleum consumed in the United States--more than we burn with our cars and more than any other industry consumes.It takes ten calories of fossil fuel energy to deliver one calorie of food energy to an American plate.A single strawberry contains about five calories. To get that strawberry from a field in California to a plate on the east coast requires 435 calories of energy.Industrial fertilizer and industrial pesticides both owe their existence to the conversion of the World War II munitions industry to civilian uses--nerve gases became pesticides, and ammonium nitrate explosives became nitrogen fertilizers. ...

A Guide to Canning, Freezing, Curing and Smoking Meat, Fish and Game (Paperback, Revised and Updated ed.): Wilbur F. Eastman A Guide to Canning, Freezing, Curing and Smoking Meat, Fish and Game (Paperback, Revised and Updated ed.)
Wilbur F. Eastman
R390 Discovery Miles 3 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This no-nonsense guide to canning, freezing, curing, and smoking meat, fish, and game is written in down-to-earth, informative, everyday language. The third edition of this perennial bestseller is completely revised and updated to comply with the latest USDA health and safety guidelines. Includes dozens of delicious recipes for homemade Beef Jerky, Pemmican, Venison Mincemeat, Corned Beef, Gepockelete (German-style cured pork), Bacon, Canadian Bacon, Smoked Sausage, Liverwurst, Bologna, Pepperoni, Fish Chowder, Cured Turkey, and a variety of hams. Learn tasty pickling methods for tripe, fish, beef, pork, and oysters. An excellent resource for anyone who loves meat but hates the steroids and chemicals in commercially available products.

Completely Know Colloidal Silver - Learn About Colloidal Silver: Colloidal Silver Reviews (Paperback): Lynn Hariri Completely Know Colloidal Silver - Learn About Colloidal Silver: Colloidal Silver Reviews (Paperback)
Lynn Hariri
R241 Discovery Miles 2 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Good Drinks (Hardcover): Julia Bainbridge Good Drinks (Hardcover)
Julia Bainbridge
R690 R389 Discovery Miles 3 890 Save R301 (44%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
MasterChef Junior Cookbook - Bold Recipes and Essential Techniques to Inspire Young Cooks (Paperback): Masterchef Junior,... MasterChef Junior Cookbook - Bold Recipes and Essential Techniques to Inspire Young Cooks (Paperback)
Masterchef Junior, Christina Tosi
R505 R414 Discovery Miles 4 140 Save R91 (18%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Michael Symon's BBQ - BBQ and More from the Grill, Smoker, and Fireplace (Hardcover): Michael Symon, Douglas Trattner Michael Symon's BBQ - BBQ and More from the Grill, Smoker, and Fireplace (Hardcover)
Michael Symon, Douglas Trattner
R702 R595 Discovery Miles 5 950 Save R107 (15%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Fresh Pasta at Home - 10 Doughs, 20 Shapes, 100+ Recipes, with or without a Machine (Paperback): America's Test Kitchen Fresh Pasta at Home - 10 Doughs, 20 Shapes, 100+ Recipes, with or without a Machine (Paperback)
America's Test Kitchen
R699 R632 Discovery Miles 6 320 Save R67 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Top 222 Easy Cookie Recipes - An Easy Cookie Cookbook You Will Love (Paperback): Jasmine Martin Top 222 Easy Cookie Recipes - An Easy Cookie Cookbook You Will Love (Paperback)
Jasmine Martin
R371 Discovery Miles 3 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Just Enough - Vegan Cooking and Stories from Japan's Buddhist Temples (Paperback): Gesshin  Claire Greenwood Just Enough - Vegan Cooking and Stories from Japan's Buddhist Temples (Paperback)
Gesshin Claire Greenwood
R445 R379 Discovery Miles 3 790 Save R66 (15%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Stuff Every Sushi Lover Should Know - Stuff Every Sushi Lover Should Know (Hardcover): Marc Luber, Brett Cohen Stuff Every Sushi Lover Should Know - Stuff Every Sushi Lover Should Know (Hardcover)
Marc Luber, Brett Cohen
R296 R246 Discovery Miles 2 460 Save R50 (17%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Sushi is one of the most popular foods in the world. But sushi lovers know there s more to learn beyond the spicy tuna, salmon avocado, and California maki roll lunch special at your local restaurant. This staple of the Japanese diet has been perfected by sushi chefs for hundreds of years. Each component from the fish and the rice to the nori, vegetables, wasabi, and soy sauce works in perfect harmony to create a single bite of pure pleasure. But sushi can also be intimidating. Where does the fish come from? Are there seasons for sushi fish? What does omakase mean? And how do you make sushi at home? Within the pages of this pocket-sized guide, you ll find information, how-tos, and trivia for sushi lovers at all levels. Experts and newbies alike will learn: Types of Sushi Fish and Their Origins The Importance of Sushi Rice Sushi Etiquette 10 Ways to Expand Your Palate How to Slice Fish And more! Series Overview: Each volume in the Stuff series tells you everything you should know to navigate life s key topics, trends, and milestones. From telling jokes, cooking vegetarian, or tending a garden to getting through college, planning a wedding, or becoming a grandparent, you ll find all the answers in this concise but comprehensive pocket-sized package.

Women on Food - Charlotte Druckman and 115 Writers, Chefs, Critics, Television Stars, and Eaters (Paperback): Charlotte Druckman Women on Food - Charlotte Druckman and 115 Writers, Chefs, Critics, Television Stars, and Eaters (Paperback)
Charlotte Druckman
R730 R597 Discovery Miles 5 970 Save R133 (18%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A provocative collection of food's most distinctive female voices and subjects Women on Food unites the radical, diverging female voices of the food industry in this urgent collection of essays, interviews, questionnaires, illustrations, quotes, and ephemera. Edited by Charlotte Druckman and written by esteemed food journalists and thinkers, including Soleil Ho, Nigella Lawson, Diana Henry, Carla Hall, Helen Rosner, Rachael Ray, and many others, this compilation illuminates the notable and varied women who make up the food world. Exploring everyday issues from the #MeToo movement, the gender pay gap, and the underrepresentation of women of color in leadership, to cultural trends including reality shows, the intersection of fashion and food, and the evolution of food writing in the last few decades, Women on Food brings together food's most vital female voices.

An Alphabet for Gourmets (Paperback): M.F.K. Fisher An Alphabet for Gourmets (Paperback)
M.F.K. Fisher
R306 R257 Discovery Miles 2 570 Save R49 (16%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
101 Things to do with Bacon, new edition (Spiral bound): Eliza Cross 101 Things to do with Bacon, new edition (Spiral bound)
Eliza Cross
R301 R251 Discovery Miles 2 510 Save R50 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Tasting Difference - Food, Race, and Cultural Encounters in Early Modern Literature (Hardcover): Gitanjali G. Shahani Tasting Difference - Food, Race, and Cultural Encounters in Early Modern Literature (Hardcover)
Gitanjali G. Shahani
R1,274 Discovery Miles 12 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Tasting Difference examines early modern discourses of racial, cultural, and religious difference that emerged in the wake of contact with foreign peoples and foreign foods from across the globe. Gitanjali Shahani reimagines the contact zone between Western Europe and the global South in culinary terms, emphasizing the gut rather than the gaze in colonial encounters. From household manuals that instructed English housewives how to use newly imported foodstuffs to "the spiced Indian air" of A Midsummer Night's Dream, from the repurposing of Othello as an early modern pitchman for coffee in ballads to the performance of disgust in travel narratives, Shahani shows how early modern genres negotiated the allure and danger of foreign tastes. Turning maxims such as "We are what we eat" on their head, Shahani asks how did we (the colonized subjects) become what you (the colonizing subjects) eat? How did we become alternately the object of fear and appetite, loathing and craving? Shahani takes us back several centuries to the process by which food came to be inscribed with racial character and the racial other came to be marked as edible, showing how the racializing of food began in an era well before chicken tikka masala and Balti cuisine. Bringing into conversation critical paradigms in early modern studies, food studies, and postcolonial studies, she argues that it is in the writing on food and eating that we see among the earliest configurations of racial difference, and it is experienced both as a different taste and as a taste of difference.

Essential Wine Book (Hardcover): Zachary Sussman Essential Wine Book (Hardcover)
Zachary Sussman
R436 R385 Discovery Miles 3 850 Save R51 (12%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A field guide to the new world of wine, featuring an overview of today's most exciting regions and easy-to-use advice on properly tasting wine, discovering under-the-radar gems, and finding the perfect bottle for any occasion. Highlighting wines from old world regions such as France, Italy, Spain, and Germany to new world wines from the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, and more, The Essential Wine Book tells you what to drink and why. Beginning with foundational information about how wine is made, how to taste it, and how to understand terroir, wine expert and journalist Zachary Sussman then gives an overview of the most important and interesting wine regions today-both established and still emerging. For instance, the great French wines of Burgundy and Champagne are already well known, but for affordable bottles you can easily find at your local wine shop, Sussman profiles up-and-coming producers in other regions, including the Jura, Languedoc-Roussillon, and more. In a similar vein, California's Napa Valley has for decades been the source of America's most prestigious wines, but here you'll learn about other areas of the state that are gaining recognition, from Lodi to the Santa Rita Hills. You'll find user-friendly "just the highlights" notes for each region, as well as recommendations for producers and particular bottles to seek out. Diving deep into what makes each region essential and unique, this comprehensive guides gives new wine drinkers and enthusiasts alike an inside track on modern wine culture.

Zoe Bakes Cakes, A Baking Book - Everything You Need to Know to Make Your Favorite Layers, Bundts, Loaves, and More... Zoe Bakes Cakes, A Baking Book - Everything You Need to Know to Make Your Favorite Layers, Bundts, Loaves, and More (Hardcover)
Zoe Francois
R634 R568 Discovery Miles 5 680 Save R66 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Natural Kitchen - Your Guide to the Sustainable Food Revolution (Paperback): Deborah Eden Tull The Natural Kitchen - Your Guide to the Sustainable Food Revolution (Paperback)
Deborah Eden Tull
R486 R431 Discovery Miles 4 310 Save R55 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Deborah Eden Tull draws on seven years of experience as an organic farmer and chef at the self-sufficient Zen Monastery Peace Center to introduce simple but life-changing ways for urbanites to adopt a mindful and sustainable relationship with food.

Taste or Taboo - Dietary Choices in Antiquity (Paperback): Michael Beer Taste or Taboo - Dietary Choices in Antiquity (Paperback)
Michael Beer
R375 Discovery Miles 3 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For many centuries the meaning of food has been much more than merely nutrition on the table. The types of food a man eats, the ways in which he cooks it, the style in which it is served: all these carry their own significance which is extended by contemporary and later observers to describe the identity of the unwitting eater. This book looks at the way in which food was employed in Greek and Roman literature to impart identity, whether social, individual, religious or ethnic. In many instances these markers are laid down in the way that foods were restricted, in other words by looking at the negatives instead of the positives of what was consumed. Michael Beer looks at several aspects of food restriction in antiquity, for example, the way in which they eschewed excess and glorified the simple diet; the way in which Jewish dietary restriction identified that nation under the Empire; the way in which Pythagoreans denied themselves meat (and beans); and the way in which the poor were restricted by economic reality from enjoying the full range of foods. These topics allow him to look at important aspects of Graeco-Roman social attitudes. For example, republic virtue, imperial laxity, Homeric and Spartan military valour, social control through sumptuary laws, and answers to excessive drinking. He also looks closely at the inherent divide of the Roman world between the twin centres of Greece and Rome and how it is expressed in food and its consumption. The book is written for the intelligent and educated reader but does not rely on quotations in the original Latin or Greek. It is fully referenced and indexed.

The Pecan - A History of America's Native Nut (Paperback): James McWilliams The Pecan - A History of America's Native Nut (Paperback)
James McWilliams
R489 R462 Discovery Miles 4 620 Save R27 (6%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

What would Thanksgiving be without pecan pie? New Orleans without pecan pralines? Southern cooks would have to hang up their aprons without America's native nut, whose popularity has spread far beyond the tree's natural home. But as familiar as the pecan is, most people don't know the fascinating story of how native pecan trees fed Americans for thousands of years until the nut was "improved" a little more than a century ago-and why that rapid domestication actually threatens the pecan's long-term future. In The Pecan, acclaimed writer and historian James McWilliams explores the history of America's most important commercial nut. He describes how essential the pecan was for Native Americans-by some calculations, an average pecan harvest had the food value of nearly 150,000 bison. McWilliams explains that, because of its natural edibility, abundance, and ease of harvesting, the pecan was left in its natural state longer than any other commercial fruit or nut crop in America. Yet once the process of "improvement" began, it took less than a century for the pecan to be almost totally domesticated. Today, more than 300 million pounds of pecans are produced every year in the United States-and as much as half of that total might be exported to China, which has fallen in love with America's native nut. McWilliams also warns that, as ubiquitous as the pecan has become, it is vulnerable to a "perfect storm" of economic threats and ecological disasters that could wipe it out within a generation. This lively history suggests why the pecan deserves to be recognized as a true American heirloom.

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