A mouse scurries up to six chestnuts. Three look healthy. Three have exit holes where moth larvae ate the insides before they ...

With Thanksgiving approaching, many of us will be sitting down to hearty feasts with family and friends. Time-tested recipes on worn index cards or heavily thumbed cookbooks are combed ...

This month hundreds of volunteers along the Appalachian Trail will trade excited e-mails detailing when they plan to pollinate their chestnut trees with special pollen—one more step in a twenty-year ...

On September 22, 1870, Henry Ward Beecher — a clergyman and social reformer as well as the brother of Uncle Tom’s Cabin author Harriet Beecher Stowe — took to the Pittsfield Sun newspaper to write of ...

Roasted chestnuts are a delectable munch after a holiday meal, but they are also a quintessential component of many Thanksgiving and Christmas recipes, from stuffings and side dishes to warm, ...

CONNEAUT, Ohio -- Jennifer Thornton, owner of Buttercream & Olive Oil cooking school in North Royalton, is a big fan of chestnuts. She uses them to make fillings and doughs. “Chestnuts have a rich, ...

Nat King Cole gave chestnuts a permanent place in holiday history when his (fourth) recording of “The Christmas Song” became popular in the early 1960s. You know the one … “Chestnuts roasting on an ...

Roasted chestnuts are cold weather comfort food. On the streets of Beijing, tiny hole-in-the-wall shops with big black drum roasters or huge iron woks are once again sending out the tempting aroma of ...