The chestnut is breaking out of its shell as a Christmas tradition and gaining a year-round reputation as a low-fat, natural way to treat certain health conditions. Certain ethnic groups have long ...

Chestnuts are all the rage these days. You see them in all the magazines – recipes for chestnut soup with fresh ginger, chestnut fillings for cakes, pork stuffed with chestnuts. A quick visit to only ...

Looking forward to some roasted chestnuts during the holidays? Michigan features several wild nut types ready for harvesting this fall. A variety of nuts grow on trees in the state and can be ...

Chestnuts have been an important part of our diet for thousands of years. Going as far back as the days of the ancient Greeks, these starchy, nutritionally rich nuts have been dried and ground into ...

The American chestnut tree (Castanea dentata) is a big beautiful tree that provides green shade in the summer and displays a stunning array of fall foliage in autumn. It then loses its leaves, as ...

At the end of October, the streets of many European cities are filled with the aroma of roasted chestnuts. For many, this fruit has become a symbol of the autumn season and an invariable attribute of ...

Chestnuts are poised for a comeback, but creating a larger niche for them in the marketplace could be as prickly as the burrs that encase them. They’re sometimes mishandled in supermarket produce ...

THE chestnut perfectly illustrates the old adage of not judging a book by its cover, celebrity chef Matt Moran says. He reveals his recipe for the perfect winter pasta using chestnuts. With a spiky ...