Miscellaneous facts about the history and cultivation of nuts -- pistachio and acorn thru litchee and peanut -- arranged in insrutable non sequiturs that read like a seventh-grader's adaptation of an encyclopedia article. How Brazil nuts are harvested, the odd and poisonous origins of the roasted cashew, why peanuts are called goobers. . .it would all be interesting if Poole had bothered to make it so, but his suggestions -- like the one about developing new varieties of acorn to solve the world's food shortage -- are surely a little cracked.