Chocolate Pecan Tart. Now, With No Corn Syrup!

When My Southern Roots Surface.

I never had pecans until I was in my 20s I think. It could have been longer as pecans weren't something commonly found around my house. We were blue collar Italians from San Francisco, and pecans were from some place far far away, deep in the South, someplace with alligators. My family on my Moms side (before they headed west to the Gold Rush) hails fro…