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.

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Q. Two years ago, I bought two Carpathian English Walnut trees from a mail-order nursery. One was strong, the other weak. The small tree's leaves turned black and dropped off, but the tree itself did ...