Nat King Cole crooning that first line from “The Christmas Song” sends holiday vibes buzzing wherever you are. But have you smelled, tasted or even seen a freshly roasted chestnut? Until a few years ...

There are numerous possible health benefits of water chestnuts. These include providing antioxidants, lowering high blood pressure, and more. Water chestnuts are an aquatic tuber vegetable. They grow ...

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 ...

OLD (AND NEW) CHESTNUTS: At Long Branch Environmental Center, Paul and Pat Gallimore are fighting to bring back the American chestnut with their grove of hundreds of backcrossed blight-resistant ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

You know the Christmas song describing “chestnuts roasting on an open fire.” The words are a big clue as to when chestnuts are in season — from October to the end of January. In other words, December ...

A blight in the early 1900s nearly wiped out the American chestnut tree, once a staple food source and building material. Farmers are now planting blight-resistant hybrid chestnut trees in an effort ...

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 ...