Woman holding an avocado in her hand against a blurred background of avocados - Oscar Wong/Getty Images It feels like avocados exploded in popularity a few years ago. I'm a millennial, and growing up, ...

Avocados have been grown in the Central American tropics since at least 750 BC, according to the California Avocado Commission. California didn’t get its first avocado trees until the 1800s. Only one ...

The British encountered it in the Caribbean and called it an alligator pear. The rest of us know the fruit as avocado (English and German), aguacate (Spanish), avocatier (French), abokado (Japanese) – ...

Like avocado toast? Well, Rudolph Hass, who was born in Milwaukee and lived here until he was in his 20s, invented the Hass avocado that today accounts for more than 80 percent all avocado crops in ...

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Say "avocado" to most people, and they probably think "guacamole." And a bowl of that chile-spiked avocado dip is a real treat.But even if the secret of guacamole were somehow to disappear from the ...

First off, it's pronounced Hass (as in pass) and it accounts for 95 percent of the American avocado market. But is it here to stay? The vast majority of avocados grown in the U.S. come from California ...

In 1925, Rudolph Hass (rhymes with pass) was 33 years old and earning 25 cents an hour as a mail carrier in Pasadena. Originally from Wisconsin, he had decided to come West to seek his fortune. But ...

Q: We live in Vista and have a Fuerte and a Haas avocado tree, with a fig tree between them. Every year the trees are loaded with blossoms. The Fuerte gives us many avocados, the Haas only one or two ...

The British encountered it in the Caribbean and called it an alligator pear. The rest of us know the fruit as avocado (English and German), aguacate (Spanish), avocatier (French), abokado (Japanese) - ...