Almonds and pistachios

[Guest guest]

Hi All,

I traveled to California over the weekend and shipped our UNpasteurized almonds

to Seattle, and they will arrive on Friday. They are a mixture of two different

varieties -- Sonora and Carmel. The Sonoras are large, light colored, flat and

sweet tasting and the Carmels are smaller, rounder, darker and have more of an

almond flavor. I didn't ask what the ratio was but it looked like they were

about half and half. Both varieties are very fresh and taste great. They were

harvested last Thursday morning and shelled on Friday. These almonds have

undergone absolutely no processing other than shelling. (Almonds are normally

subjected to fumigation, in addition to pasteurization.) I've checked labels on

6 or 7 different brands of " raw " almonds in the past few weeks and none have any

indication of the fact that they are pasteurized, nor which process was used

(heat or chemicals), even though pasteurization is now the law on all almonds

sold after September 1, 2007.

 

If you placed an order, please email me to arrange for pick up. I can have

orders ready anytime after Friday evening. I encourage people to consolidate

travel by having one person pick up many orders, if it can be worked out.

Alternatively, I'll be attending the Doug Graham lecture next week and could

bring orders with me. I may have some available for sale for people who didn't

place orders but I won't know till all the advance orders are filled. I'll keep

the list posted.

 

I also finally made contact with the owner of a small pistachio grove I found on

a previous trip. I've been waiting a long time to try freshly harvested

pistachios because although I've always loved the taste I've usually found them

to be hard, dry and difficult to chew. These nuts taste great and are moist and

soft. The farm is very small and has not gone through the organic certification

process but is committed to using absolutely no chemical fertilizers,

herbicides, pesticides or fumigants. The farmer normally sends his crop to

farmers markets in San Francisco but I arranged to buy as much of it as there is

demand. The nuts are currently being harvested and dried (on a table, in the

open air). The farmer will need to know how many I want before this Thursday

the 27th. I shipped 20 pounds with the almonds and will have these for sale

until they run out at $7/lb. (minimum 1 lb.).

 

Please email me if you have any questions. Thank you!

 

Nora

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Hi, are there any almonds left, I would love to purchase some. How

much are they?

[Guest guest]

CS--I think if you read the previous posts your questions will be answered. If

not, I'd be happy to answer.

 

Thanks to those of you who added your order to the database already. Did any of

you have a problem figuring it out? I was just told that I left out some steps

in my instructions, but the person didn't mention specifically what I left out.

If anyone has any feedback, please let me know. I want to make this as easy as

possible for everyone.

 

Regards,

Nora