Chestnuts are one of my favorite foraging foods. The chestnut we have is the Chinese chestnut as most of the American chestnut trees were wiped out many years ago. Here in my area, Western North ...

This is National Chestnut Week, and I have a newfound enthusiasm for chestnuts. I was once like you, thinking the nuts existed only in song. My first exposure to a real live chestnut was right here in ...

Unlike other nuts, this variety are quite soft because they have a higher water content, and for that reason they need to be kept in the fridge, preferable with a damp cloth over them. Fresh chestnuts ...