On a hill just outside the Gold Rush town of Nevada City, Calif., about an hour northeast of Sacramento, stands a sweet 1890s Victorian farmhouse surrounded by several acres of venerable-looking ...

Chestnuts are a seasonal tree nut with a long history, popular in many cuisines. American chestnuts are sweeter than European chestnuts. Fresh chestnuts must be scored and cooked before eating to ...

Several Chicago chefs are doing more than simply roasting chestnuts. David Murphy, executive chef of Wave in the W Hotel Lakeshore, serves a sturgeon carpaccio with chestnut foam. Murphy purees the ...

Before the chestnut blight hit the forests of the eastern United States in the late 1800s, an estimated 4 billion American chestnut trees dominated the woodlands. The trees were magnificent and ...

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 ...

If you grew up almost anywhere cold in North America or Europe, one of the most evocative sensations of the holiday season is the smoky-sweet smell of chestnuts, roasting irresistibly on ...

Although I adore this extraordinarily rich, fragrant puree, peeling fresh chestnuts is such a time consuming job, I probably wouldn't make it as often as I do unless I could use prepared chestnuts. I ...

In France, chestnuts are used in many ways. During the autumn harvest season, fresh chestnuts are roasted on street corners in Paris as well as in country towns like Avignon. But the French chestnut ...

I am chestnut-obsessed. As a kid I hated them, but as an adult I can barely get enough when they’re in season. I eat them roasted to just nibble on, in pilafs and stuffings, with pasta, and — my ...

Who doesn’t love chocolate truffles? They offer the essence of chocolate and a surefire mood enhancer. Just one inspires happiness. How nice — given the richness of a chocolate truffle, whose ...