Pistachio a sudden 50% loss in the Australian pistachio harvest. Several years of severe drought in Iran around 2008 to 2015 caused significant declines in production. In 2016, world production of pistachios was 1.1 million tonnes, with the United States and Iran as leading producers, together accounting for 68% of the total (table). Secondary producers were Turkey and China. The kernels are often eaten whole, either fresh or roasted and salted, and are also used in pistachio ice cream, kulfi, spumoni, historically in Neapolitan ice cream, pistachio butter, pistachio paste and confections such as baklava, pistachio chocolate, pistachio halva, pistachio lokum
The Half-Made World story, a terrifically inventive setting, a hard-bitten, indestructible hero, and an intelligent, fully adult heroine.". The author has published a sequel titled . The book is not a direct sequel as it is focused primarily on the character Harry Ransom, not the original protagonists of "The Half-Made World", but is set in the same universe and takes place after "The Half-Made World", with a number of characters appearing in both books. The Half-Made World The Half-Made World is a 2010 steampunk fantasy novel by Felix Gilman. It is set in an alternate version of the American Wild West where the