Buttery, slightly sweet cooked chestnuts are a dream in desserts, such as Nigella Lawson's chestnut pavlova, and in savory dishes, like Wolfgang Puck's creamy chestnut soup. Here, all of our best ...

Curious about how to cook chestnuts without resorting to an open fire? Try this delicious chestnut porridge recipe. It'll be your new favorite breakfast. Chestnuts aren’t just for the holidays. Here’s ...

Place water chestnuts in a small bowl, cover with soy sauce, and let soak for a few minutes. Remove and wrap chestnuts with one piece of bacon and secure with toothpicks. Place in baking dish. Top ...

It’s true. The sun is shining and it even feels a bit like spring! The best thing about sunny days (in my way of thinking) is unwinding in the chestnut field with 1,135 saplings. Going up and down the ...

I blame Nat King Cole's "The Christmas Song" for ingraining this idea that we're all supposed to be roasting chestnuts on an open fire during the holidays. Show of hands: How many people have actually ...

It seems the best way to cook chestnuts is indeed over an open fire, so the flames can touch the shells. I briefly considered asking my husband to drill holes into an old skillet and take the ...

There will be much consternation on Christmas Day. I don't just mean the annual ritual of several women (and one man, whose opinion usually prevails) looking through the oven's glass window trying to ...

I almost poisoned myself this fall, sampling some foraged Ohio buckeyes. Someone told me they were chestnuts. They looked and felt just like chestnuts, with their brown, lacquered shells. But they ...

Sitting under a dappled arbor of near-black grapes, Joanne Parker let the memories flow. "I used to drive Aunt Elsie up to pick chestnuts," she said. Parker was at the Gianoli Ranch in Yorkville, ...

Once again it's the time of year for chestnuts; I can't quite believe it has come around so quickly. I love their soft, crumbly, yet velvety texture and the way they are wet but strangely dry and ever ...

Christina travels to an ancient town in Tuscany that has produced chestnuts for centuries. Chestnuts have been a food source for thousands of years. They can be eaten raw, roasted, ground into flour, ...