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I have always considered the pistachio to be a harmless little snack. That was, until I watched Yasha Levine and Rowan Wernham’s “Pistachio Wars,” which shells open a world of greed and corruption that is hanging the state of California out to dry.

At the center of the story is the billionaire-couple Stewart and Lynda Resnick. He is the country’s wealthiest “farmer”; she is the daughter of the producer of the cult favorite “The Blob” and a marketing whiz who could sell coal to Newcastle. Together, they have built up The Wonderful Company into a billion-dollar enterprise and gained control over much of California’s water, a subject that has drawn fresh interest in the wake of this year’s deadly LA fires, during which city fire hydrants ran dry.