If you've ever wondered where Cashews come from, here's the answer.
A cashew is actually attached to the base of a fruit that we call marañon (Anacardium occidentale) that looks kind of like a mushroom.
They grow on trees and taste like, well, marañon. They don't really taste like anything else so there's no point of comparison. And they smell all the way across the house, it's that strong, though not really a bad smell, depending on whether you like the fruit or not.
The cashew itself is toxic when it's taken off the fruit. The seeds are acid and irritating, like poison ivy, so you don't want to break the skin on the seed. What you do is roast them over a fire, which gets rid of the top layers and produces the cashews you get in stores.
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