What a Nut! While touring in Trinidad we purchased a brazil nut pod from a road side fruit and vegetable stand. The cost was 40 TT (Trinidad and Tobago dollars - approximately $7.50 Canadian). The Rastafarian salesman was very clear in his instructions for the pod (bluntly so in his description of the aphrodisiac qualities of the plant matter surrounding the nuts inside). We were to wait for the pod to pop open, which it did in 1 week, remove the nuts and lay them in the sun to dry (our pod contained 48 nuts) then "brew up" a beverage out of the pulp remaining. Needless to say we have new respect for the effort required to produce that "handful" of mixed nuts that we take for granted. Frankly I can't imagine how it is possible for us to purchase them so cheaply. While in Grenada we saw that each cashew is part of one whole fruit on the tree - one nut per fruit. The harvesting process must be immense. We will appreciate and savour them more from now on.