My mom loves pistachio nuts. So much in fact that each Christmas she gets about 10 pounds worth of the hearty nuts from various gift givers. When I was a kid she’d get the ones that were covered with that red dye. I haven’t seen red pistachios in years, which I’m sure has to do with the fact that the ingredients in the dye proved to be harmful to lab rats… and here we thought the only adverse effect of eating red pistachios was dealing with fingers that looked like they were badly sunburned. In any event, my mom doesn’t … Continue reading →