Ten Minutes: Pistachios

Requiring the perfect amount of effort to open, these hard-shelled money nuts have been a part of our diet for almost a million years. As a close relative to the prince of nuts, this noble snack is a far cry from the peasant-level legumes you’ll find discarded on the floors of BBQ joints across America. They’re also the only nut with a million dollar marketing team behind them. That's not peanuts.