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, ...

ROCKPORT, Ill. — Linda Black walks down the orchard path outside her back door with her head bent, eyes scanning the dirt and scant grass. For what seems like the hundredth time before noon on this ...

Chestnuts are one of my favorite foraging foods. The chestnut we have is the Chinese chestnut as most of the American chestnut trees were wiped out many years ago. Here in my area, Western North ...

I have always found the tragic story of the American Chestnut, Castanea dentata, of great interest and have followed it since the early 1970s. This large tree in the Appalachian Mountains is second ...

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 ...