Emails bombarded my in-box last week like a barrage of walnuts on the driveway. More than a dozen readers contacted me to say that last week’s column about black walnuts piqued their interest and they ...

Walnuts give almonds a run for their money as the most indispensable nut in the pantry. We call them English walnuts. The English call them Persian walnuts. I wonder what the Persians call them.

Workers inspect walnuts inside the California Valley Nut Co. processing facility in Yuba City. Randy Pench [email protected] To longtime farmer Dan Silva, the surge in walnut-tree planting has had the ...