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On a recent trip through Georgia, I stopped at Ellis Brothers Pecans in Vienna, and purchased some pecan logs. I can’t wait to try them out. No, these aren’t the high-calorie candy pecan logs of pecans and caramel. These are the actual logs from pecan trees.
I was able to pick out my logs from a selection in the storage shed.
The Ellis Brothers store is located on the edge of their pecan groves. The store is filled with all kinds of pecans — pecans you can shell yourself, bags of shelled pecans, and a wide variety of pecan candies (from milk-chocolate-covered pecans to pecan brittle). One of the treats of the store is that you can sample the nuts, which I did — deciding on a large bag of the Ellis pecans to add to salads and yogurt. Because I like the pecans, I thought I might like the pecan wood. One of the workers walked with me to a storage shed in the grove to let me pick out my pecan logs. I’m now deciding what these pecan logs will become — bowls, pendants? In a later post, I’ll let you see what I decide.