Walking into Valley View Pecan Company, the smell of fresh-cracked pecans and homemade candies evoke a scrumdiddlyumptious thought of what it would be like to enter Willy Wonka’s candy factory.

Pecan season is here. Pecan trees are native to Arkansas, and their nuts are a welcome sign of fall. While many people would like to have them as a shade tree with benefits -- to produce large, ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - Alabama pecan growers saw prospects for a good year plucked from them when Tropical Storm Isaac blew through their trees in late August. But the problems state pecan growers have ...

Pecans in the shell usually sell for much less than shelled. So it pays to crack your own. We tested three common tools: – The hinged-tong style. The simplest cracker. It’s the easiest to use: Just ...

Q: Now that it is pecan season in Southeast Texas, many people have lots of pecans to be cracked. Can you list local businesses that have commercial crackers where they can take them? A: I can ...

Things are definitely getting nuttier in the kitchen these days, what with all the pecans, peanuts, walnuts, macadamia nuts, almonds, pistachios, cashews and hazelnuts showing up in everything from ...