All treatments use locally-sourced ingredients such as healing manuka honey, essential oils and fresh almonds.

Castro brought over a handful of fresh almonds.

Fay's days are spent playing house underneath shady trees, eating fresh almonds and bathing in the river.

Among the loveliest signs of spring in markets in the Mediterranean and the Middle East are baskets of downy, pale green fresh almonds.

It has a taste of fresh almond and hazelnut.

In the ancient world Jewish pilgrims arrived during Passover with dried fruits and fresh green almonds, sheep and lambs slung over their shoulders.

Some compare it to fresh almonds and avocados.

When I got over the shock, it hit me that the cookie was delicious, a burst of roasted fresh almonds.

(On a trip to Australia last year, he had eaten white larvae that he swore tasted "exactly like fresh almonds.")

In late summer, tart apples and pears, peeled and sliced, also make an excellent clafoutis, especially with a few fresh almonds, walnuts or hazelnuts added.