The Pecan is a delicious nut, similar to walnut, but tasting slightly sweeter. By 1500, the original inhabitants of America, the Indians, ate an abundance of pecans. The nameless trees grew in the wild. The Spaniards called the pecan a ‘kind of walnut’, whereas the French named the nut ‘la pacaniere’.White settlers in the American Southwest soon discovered the pecan trees and got acquainted with its delicious and nutritious nuts.