How to roast your own chestnuts this winter
by Sue Wunder
Jan 01, 2023
2 minutes
I’ve always loved chestnuts. A venerable chestnut tree grew a few blocks from my childhood home in upstate New York, and I avidly collected them from the adjacent city sidewalk. In retrospect I realize my booty wasn’t true, American chestnuts, whose fruit can be roasted and eaten, but horse chestnuts, or buckeyes, bitter and inedible. No matter. I simply enjoyed the nuts’ gleaming two-tone brown shells and
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