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 ...

Medically reviewed by Jonathan Purtell, RDN Key Takeaways Pine nuts have more healthy fats and protein compared to chestnuts.  Chestnuts are higher in fiber and provide more sustained energy than pine ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The low FODMAP rating of water chestnuts, makes them suitable for IBS patients, because they do not trigger bloating from difficult-to-digest carbohydrates, while providing nutrients to beneficial gut ...

Chestnuts were considered to be America’s “perfect tree” because of the high quality of their nuts and wood, but an imported blight nearly eradicated the species by the early 1900s. Resistance has ...

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 ...