Who introduced pecans to the rest of the world?
Two Spanish explorers were the first to write about pecans in historical documents. In 1533, Lope de Oviedo wrote in his journal in about 1533 that “there were on the banks of this river many nuts, which the Indians ate.” Eight years later in 1541, Cabeza de Vaca, who had been taken prisoner by the Indians, wrote about these nuts. “It is the subsistence of the people (the Indians) for two months in the year without any other thing.” Both explorers observed the pecans along rivers in what is now Texas.
