Pecans

Students split up into groups with names like "Pecans" and "Pistachios," learning how rice starts from a plant and becomes a rice cake, why stewardship is important and what kinds of soils Butte County boasts.

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Brandon Thibodeaux for The Wall Street Journal Pecans are fried in cotton seed oil, left.

Nuts for Pecans 2011

After several more experiments and many happy mouthfuls later, I present Pumpkin Pie Pudding with Candied Pecans and Whipped Cream.

One For The Table: Pumpkin: It's Not Just for Pie One For The Table 2011

After several more experiments and many happy mouthfuls later, I present Pumpkin Pie Pudding with Candied Pecans and Whipped Cream.

One For The Table: Pumpkin: It's Not Just for Pie One For The Table 2011

Pecans, in contrast, grow across the South from New Mexico to Georgia as well as in northern Mexico.

Shell Shock: Chinese Demand Reshapes U.S. Pecan Business David Wessel 2011

Pecans offer a case study in how China is reshaping entire industries for its trading partners—and not only by exporting goods made by its low-wage workers.

Shell Shock: Chinese Demand Reshapes U.S. Pecan Business David Wessel 2011

Cooper, when your ear canals start to itch, can I suggest you remove the Pecans and Almonds from your ears.

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Nuts for Pecans Brandon Thibodeaux for The Wall Street Journal Pecans, including these in the hands of George Martin, president of Navarro Pecan Co., show how China is reshaping entire industries in its trading partners.

Shell Shock: Chinese Demand Reshapes U.S. Pecan Business David Wessel 2011

Brandon Thibodeaux for The Wall Street Journal Pecans show how China is reshaping entire industries in its trading partners.

Nuts for Pecans 2011

Pecans traditionally made their way from U.S. and Mexican growers to the eight or so major shellers in the U.S. In good years, says Daniel Zedan, a long-time pecan broker in Wayne, Ill., the price paid for the nuts would fall and growers would complain "that the shellers had cheated them."

Shell Shock: Chinese Demand Reshapes U.S. Pecan Business David Wessel 2011