"RAW" -- GOOD OR BAD?

The word "raw" can be used in many ways. Some of the uses of raw have a "this is bad news" meaning.

Raw skin is skin that is red and scraped. A raw book is a book that is NOT for children. But raw food is just uncooked food.

Somehow, the FDA has decided that the word "raw" is the word of choice to tell you something is uncooked.

Some of you have decided that "raw" food means that the food is somehow not good. This has resulted in people roasting and salting pecans.

Pecans are one of the foods of the gods. Pecans do NOT need to be cooked. They taste OK cooked, but pecans are best just out of the shell. Pecans definitely do NOT need to be salted.

So here is the rule of thumb. NUTS are from a tree. NUTS generally do not need to be cooked or salted. SEEDS like sunflower seeds, generally taste better cooked with a LITTLE salt. Too much salt overwhelms the taste of the seeds.

BUY RAW PECANS. See if I am not right.