Small, pale green nuts with a hard shell that you crack open to eat, known for their distinctive flavor and often served as a snack.
From Persian 'pistah' (the nut), borrowed into Greek as 'pistakē' and Latin as 'pistachia'. The word traveled westward through trade routes around the Mediterranean and Middle East.
Pistachios are one of the oldest flowering trees cultivated by humans—evidence suggests people were eating them 9,000 years ago! Their popularity exploded after Clarence Birdseye's quick-freezing technology made them commercially viable in the 20th century.
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