Walnuts have been consumed since prehistoric times, and we have been frustrated with extracting the kernels ever since. The walnut is literally a tough nut to crack, at least without scattering ...

Walnuts are delicious on their own, in baked goods, or toasted and tossed into a salad -- fortunately, cracking them just go so much easier.

Black walnut (Juglans nigra) is a long-lived tree native to the central and eastern portions of the United States, including Ohio.

But the effort is worthwhile. By comparison, I recently bought California grown, shelled walnuts. This variety of walnut is much easier to crack compared with the black walnut. On sale at Aldi’s in ...