almond harvest 2010
in case you ever wondered where almonds come from: these are almonds, just picked off the ground- the outer shell has dried out and split- and the almond is in the hard shell. Almonds come in different shapes. Commercially grown almonds (according to EU standards(, are long and narrow. My favorites however are the round ones- .
The size of the hard shell is not always an indication of the size of the almond-.