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    WALNUT HARVEST LENDS ITSELF TO DELICIOUS TREATS
    By Hillary S. Meeks

    Visalia Times-Delta
    October 1, 2008
    CA

    September and October mark walnut harvesting season, and Tulare County
    has its fair share of groves that bring in these tasty and nutritious
    nuts. One such grove can be found at Sevan Farms in northwest Visalia,
    run by Brian Yahnian and his father, Sark Yahnian.

    A once small walnut operation, the business has grown to 20
    acres. After processing, Sevan Farms nuts are sold to several
    California distributors, including local distributor Nutrinut Inc.

    Once a year Sylvia Yahnian, Brian's mother and Sark's wife, teams
    up with other women from her family's church, St. Mary's Armenian
    Apostolic Church in Yettem, to make crescent cookies using their
    walnuts to sell during the Armenian Food Festival in May. But sometimes
    when walnut season rolls around, she makes the cookies just for the
    fun of it.

    The cookies have a light texture, almost like a croissant. This dough
    is filled with a tasty walnut mixture.

    Another Armenian treat sold at the festival is paklava, which is made
    with multiple layers of filo dough, walnut filling, a sugary syrup
    and copious amounts of butter.

    The end result is a sticky and satisfying pastry.

    If you don't want to wait until May to get some of these goods made
    authentically by Armenians, try your own hand at baking some crescent
    cookies and paklava at home with these traditional recipes.
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