As I'm exploring this it's kind of a rabbit hole. It leads to questions about culture and philosophy of food.
As I go down the rabbit hole, I'm reminded of the childhood game telephone. Everyone seems to be repeating each other but no one really knows what they're saying. Everyone refers to prior generations eating acorns and acorn cuisine practices, but no one seems to be doing it themselves.
I am totally confronted by the sheer Mass of caloric provision a single oak tree provides. If we can solve the storage problem, why shouldn't this be an enormous part of our diet? This seems to be at the heart of permanency in permaculture. Our landscape in South Carolina for example is littered with these massive oaks, and because no one eats acorns we forget that they are in fact climax community nut trees.
A little note on edibility.
I'm kind of mulling this over, and I'm also a little shocked at the lack of consensus when you get down to grassroots level on whether or not acorns are even edible raw
https://www.be-the-story.com/en/healthy-eating/acorns-the-forgotten-food/
this YouTube short got me started thinking about it
