Pistachios

The original homelands of the pistachio were Asia Minor (now Turkey), Iran, Syria, Lebanon and a bit north to the Caucasus in southern Russia and Afghanistan.
Archeologists have found evidence in a dig site at Jerome, near northeastern Iraq, that pistachio nuts were BCE when the Near East sprouted in population and less common foods such as pistachios were rediscovered and even cultivated.
Pistachios grow well under hot dry summer and cool winter, (arid countries) such as Iran, Turkey, Syria and Afghanistan.
They also turn up In Pakistan and India, as well as in Mediterranean Italy, Tunisia and Greece. In the last 30 years or so, the Pistachio has found new homes in California, New Mexico and Arizona.
The Pistachio’s uniqueness, certainly among nuts,is its green color. Food historian Waverly Root has asserted that the green of the nut opened up the possibility of inserting the color green naturally into desserts, an area of cuisine previously green
-deprived.
The early people of Persia used several nuts in desserts, the Arabs copied them, and