Food

Story of the pistachio: the nut’s origins in the Middle East, and how Italy grows the finest variety, newly popular in China




Sicily’s premium pistachios are so coveted that local police use helicopter patrols to guard the harvest. Long known for its connections to the mafia, Italy’s southernmost province also has to contend with pistachio hijacking.

Dubbed “green gold”, or just “the emerald”, this choice pistachio variety is grown in the countryside around the town of Bronte, where the black volcanic soil of Mount Etna, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, has made the terrain particularly fertile. The most…



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