If you've never tried a roasted chestnut, you're not alone! Truthfully, I didn't try a roasted chestnut, or as the Swiss call them, a castagne, until I lived in Switzerland. Like peanuts at most ...

When the chill of winter sets in, certain traditions bring warmth and nostalgia to households worldwide. Among them is the iconic image of chestnuts roasting on an open fire, a seasonal ritual that ...

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Today's Kitchen Basics video is a holiday special: How to roast and peel fresh chestnuts. Chestnuts are a hallmark of the season - and the fresh ones are incomparable - but if you've never handled ...

The American chestnut tree (Castanea dentata) is a big beautiful tree that provides green shade in the summer and displays a stunning array of fall foliage in autumn. It then loses its leaves, as ...

In the panoply of smells that mark the transition of fall into winter, few are more evocative than chestnuts roasting on an open fire. The aroma that inspired the first line of Mel Torme’s “The ...

One of the most durable of all standard Christmas songs played nonstop during this time of year is “The Christmas Song”. If that unimaginative title doesn’t ring any silver bells, that’s because it is ...

Roasting chestnuts leisurely in a little cast iron pot over a roaring fireplace would be romantic, wouldn’t it? My winter evenings usually include tripping over a problematic Roomba and wrangling my ...

Jack Frost might nip at your nose. Tiny tots will find it hard to sleep on Christmas Eve. But the opening lyrics to Nat King's Cole's 1946 classic, "The Christmas Song," probably falls flat with most ...