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macadamia

ma kuh day mee uh

  • n  any tree of the genus Macadamia

  • She had been so sure she was gone that she brought the producers a basket of macadamia nuts and chocolate as a goodbye gift.
  • Near Diamond Head, two thousand feet above Pearl Harbor in the island of Oahu, Hawaii, the Duke of Windsor bought himself a macadamia (something like cashew) nut plantation .
  • Yet his diet can be boring and requires an incredible attention to detail, like eating three olives or one macadamia nut.
News & Articles

  • Mango meringue pie with coconut macadamia crust
    See what happened when Moriah Van Vleet paired mangoes with a graham cracker crust full of macadamias, coconut and lime slathered with vanilla meringue and toasted like a marshmallow. Continue reading »
    June 20, 2013 - Berkeleyside
  • Macadamias Are the Best Nut
    Don't blame me,most people say. "I'm just a squirrel trying to get a nut." If you were a squirrel trying to get a nut, why not go for the Cadillac of nuts? The macadamia nut. It comes from Hawai'i. Read more...        
    June 18, 2013 - Gawker
Quotes

  • Roseanne Barr in Monsters and Critics.com
    Barr tells Reuters Life: "It's a nut farm. I always knew I would end up on a nut farm, and I'm going to . . . I will find new uses for macadamia nuts. I really like to cook, but it's only about every sixth time something comes out good. I burn it at...
  • Kevin Rudd in Sydney Morning Herald
    Nambour's main industries are sugar processing and maintenance of the Big Macadamia Nut,Rudd explains. "It's smaller than Washington."
  • Wally Buono in Vancouver Sun
    Oatmeal raisin - no chocolate or Macadamia nut - because they're healthy,Buono says. "My cardiologist is very happy with me."

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