Until last week I thought almond producers had found every way under the spring sun to market their product: in the shell, whole, blanched, slivered, sliced, ground into flour and pressed into oil.

Serve this cold drink with homemade tacos or burritos. California almonds are ripe now, and that keeps our squirrels happy. But California produces many more almonds than squirrels can make a dent in.

When you're talking about almonds, "raw" may not mean what you think. All California almonds — which would be virtually all the almonds in the country — are either heat-pasteurized or treated with a ...

Since 2007, every commercially grown almond from California – which means every almond grown commercially in the United States since they all come from the Golden State – has been heat-pasteurized or ...

I'm old enough to remember when almonds were a novelty. Almonds in the shell usually were the more difficult to crack among the unshelled mixed nuts in Christmas gift baskets or available by the scoop ...

Almonds, a pocket-sized powerhouse, offer significant health benefits including improved heart health and gut bacteria. A ...