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T TikiTomD Grand Member (6 years) Flagler Beach, FL Joined: Sep 20, 2009 Posts: 700	T TikiTomD Posted posted on Wed, Dec 14, 2011 10:53 AM Komohana, mahalo for the information on Macadamia Nut origins. Expanding on your trivia: In 1857, the nut was named in honor of Dr. John Macadam, MD, a Scottish-born Australian chemist, medical teacher and politician who served as the Secretary of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria. I noticed from your article that the Macadamia Nut is also referred to as the Queensland Nut or Bush Nut in deference to its native range. Pat and I visited the Mauna Loa Macadamia Nut orchards and factory at Kea`au on the Big Island about 11 years ago. It is on the road between Hilo and Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park. Their web site indicates that the first Macadamia Nut tree was planted in Hawai`i at Kapulena on the Big Island in 1881, and the first plantation was planted near Honolulu, O`ahu in 1921. The original Mauna Loa plantation was started in 1946. For those who like Macadamia Nuts and chocolate, here’s the Mauna Loa recipe for Chocolate Macadamia Truffle Mousse Pie (Hershey’s now owns the Mauna Loa brand). The Macadamia Nut is the hardest of nuts to crack open, and inflicting the required force to break the shell also tends to obliterate the edible nut inside. According to this article (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=Oc-rVwKPngoC&dat=20030305&printsec=frontpage&hl=en, page 12), legend is that it took American ingenuity to develop the nut-cracking machinery necessary to make commercial exploitation possible... The Southeast Missourian March 5, 2003 From the Google News archives (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=SFOYbPikdlgC&dat=19491229&printsec=frontpage&hl=en, page 3) also comes this interesting story on early commercial efforts and risks taken to exploit the Macadamia Nut as a profitable food crop in Hawai`i... The Spartanburg Herald-Journal December 29, 1949 Robert Gribbroek, late Warner Brothers Cartoon unit layout artist and background painter, used Macadamia Nuts in his 1959 winning recipe for Pork Tenderloin Javanese (Google News http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=dXBh7-90p_YC&dat=19591208&printsec=frontpage&hl=en, page 3)... Lodi News-Sentinel December 8, 1959 Tiki and Macadamia Nuts have had a close relationship since 1960, when Mamoru Takitani enlisted an art teacher friend to design a logo for his newly purchased Honolulu candy company that he renamed Hawaiian Host... Photo by Johnny Dollar on Flickr Finally, a caution for Macadamia Nut lovers: keep them away from your dogs, as they are highly toxic to them. Chocolate covered Macadamia Nuts are doubly so. -Tom

Komohana, mahalo for the information on Macadamia Nut origins. Expanding on your trivia: In 1857, the nut was named in honor of Dr. John Macadam, MD, a Scottish-born Australian chemist, medical teacher and politician who served as the Secretary of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria. I noticed from your article that the Macadamia Nut is also referred to as the Queensland Nut or Bush Nut in deference to its native range.

Pat and I visited the Mauna Loa Macadamia Nut orchards and factory at Keaau on the Big Island about 11 years ago. It is on the road between Hilo and Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Their web site indicates that the first Macadamia Nut tree was planted in Hawaii at Kapulena on the Big Island in 1881, and the first plantation was planted near Honolulu, Oahu in 1921. The original Mauna Loa plantation was started in 1946. For those who like Macadamia Nuts and chocolate, here’s the Mauna Loa recipe for Chocolate Macadamia Truffle Mousse Pie (Hershey’s now owns the Mauna Loa brand).

The Macadamia Nut is the hardest of nuts to crack open, and inflicting the required force to break the shell also tends to obliterate the edible nut inside. According to this article (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=Oc-rVwKPngoC&dat=20030305&printsec=frontpage&hl=en, page 12), legend is that it took American ingenuity to develop the nut-cracking machinery necessary to make commercial exploitation possible...

The Southeast Missourian March 5, 2003

From the Google News archives (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=SFOYbPikdlgC&dat=19491229&printsec=frontpage&hl=en, page 3) also comes this interesting story on early commercial efforts and risks taken to exploit the Macadamia Nut as a profitable food crop in Hawai`i...

The Spartanburg Herald-Journal December 29, 1949

Robert Gribbroek, late Warner Brothers Cartoon unit layout artist and background painter, used Macadamia Nuts in his 1959 winning recipe for Pork Tenderloin Javanese (Google News http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=dXBh7-90p_YC&dat=19591208&printsec=frontpage&hl=en, page 3)...

Lodi News-Sentinel December 8, 1959

Tiki and Macadamia Nuts have had a close relationship since 1960, when Mamoru Takitani enlisted an art teacher friend to design a logo for his newly purchased Honolulu candy company that he renamed Hawaiian Host...

Photo by Johnny Dollar on Flickr

Finally, a caution for Macadamia Nut lovers: keep them away from your dogs, as they are highly toxic to them. Chocolate covered Macadamia Nuts are doubly so.

-Tom

Post #617334 by TikiTomD on Wed, Dec 14, 2011 10:53 AM