Roasting chestnuts had always seemed like too much work to try on my own. Buried beneath a green spiky burr and several layers of shell, chestnuts are a rather standoffish foodstuff. After getting ...

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 ...

"Chestnuts roasting on an open fire" is the first step of my favorite Brussels sprouts recipe. Local chestnuts, now in season, grow in southern Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri and are smaller than the ...