Roasted chestnuts can be turned into a delicious pasta sauce that is both hearty and flavorful. Roast the chestnuts until ...

On the days when Milan's veil of gray miraculously dissolves, the eye is irresistibly drawn up to the perpetually white summit of Mont Blanc, gleaming like a frosty mirage in the northern sky. Monte ...

Lost Foods of New York City is a column that celebrates the food and drink that once fed the city, but have disappeared. No other single force has shaped New York City food as much as immigration.

Line bottom of 8-inch cake pan with parchment paper. Butter pan sides and parchment paper. Melt 1/4 cup butter in small saucepan. Slowly incorporate well into chestnut puree in medium bowl. Add honey, ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. I have been cooking scallops in one way or another for years. My first efforts were borrowed from my mother, who ...

This simple flourless chocolate cake tastes extra festive with the addition of chestnut purée and a bit of dark rum. To serve alongside the almost-brownie-like cake is a sweet-and-tart kumquat sauce ...

Wolfgang Puck's silky-smooth autumnal soup showcases sweet and earthy chestnuts with fruity ruby port and luscious heavy cream. Layered with earthy Swiss chard and meaty chestnuts, Justin Chapple's ...

Although I adore this extraordinarily rich, fragrant puree, peeling fresh chestnuts is such a time consuming job, I probably wouldn't make it as often as I do unless I could use prepared chestnuts. I ...

THE problem is not the shell. Correction: not just the shell. What makes peeling a chestnut so tedious and hand-scorching is the pellicle, the unpalatable inner skin that clings stubbornly to the ...

On a hill just outside the Gold Rush town of Nevada City, Calif., about an hour northeast of Sacramento, stands a sweet 1890s Victorian farmhouse surrounded by several acres of venerable-looking ...

"This classic, unbaked 'cake' is for people who like dense, assertive chocolate desserts. It's super-easy--requiring only moments to combine the chestnut, melted chocolate, and rum--and extremely rich ...