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The deer have been busy around here vacuuming up every acorn they can find. That, of course, has gotten me thinking and wondering. I don’t believe I’ve ever known any people to eat acorns. I don’t think Fve ever seen a recipe that includes acoms. And, yet, they would seem such a plentiful food source. So, always on the look for free and local foods I began to wonder if they were edible. (After all, I grew up with Euell Gibbons telling me “Some pine trees are edible.”) I thought perhaps they just had a flavor that was very unappetizing. Then we went to the National Zoo in D.C. this weekend and there was an informational plaque telling me that acoms are actually poisonous to human beings. That got me curious.
And it turns out it’s not quite that simple. Acoms were apparently a major food source for some native Americans. While it’s true that acoms have tannins in them that are, at the very least, unpleasant tasting
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