It’s officially the holiday season, which means it’s the best time of the year to test your skills baking gingerbread cookies for the first time, and romanticize roasting chestnuts on an open ...
Until a few years ago, I hadn’t either. And I’m not alone. My fascination with chestnuts started with Richard Powers’ Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Overstory,” which begins with the ...
It's been a very long time since vendors sold the American chestnut on city sidewalks. It's no longer the variety whose smell some people associate with Christmastime as it wafts from street carts.