Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While our culinary memories of the American chestnut have mostly faded, the fruit of the "bread tree" as it is sometimes called, ...

These trees are the Chinese variety. "What we grow here have been several generations in North America we've selected over the years," says Amy Miller of Route 9 Cooperative. The nuts are beginning to ...

TRAVERSE CITY — The only thing most Americans know about chestnuts is that they can be roasted on a open fire. And that’s just because of a holiday song. Most of us haven’t seen a chestnut up close, ...

But Chinese chestnuts continued to grow in China, Taiwan, Korea and Bosnia, where the tradition of roasting the sweet nuts over an open fire through the fall and winter months — or until your supply ...

Around the orchard at Chestnut Charlie’s, there’s a joke between the owners — the guy who made up that Christmas carol didn’t know what he was talking about. “The Christmas Song,” which begins with ...

While our culinary memories of the American chestnut have mostly faded, the fruit of the "bread tree" as it is sometimes called, remains firmly rooted in European and Asian tradition. Andrea Guastella ...