It’s officially the holiday season, which means it’s the best time of the year to test your skills baking gingerbread cookies for the first time, and romanticize roasting chestnuts on an open fire.

To prepare boiled chestnuts, first choose the chestnuts, discarding any with holes or that are open. Then transfer them to a bowl and completely cover them with room-temperature water (1). Let the ...

My grandmother Ginny's signature dish was quail braised with chestnuts, served on polenta or grits. She was Louisianan and had emigrated to Italy, and I suppose the dish — game, cornmeal and the ...

This bull tail stew with chestnuts is a rich, flavorful recipe straight from the wild, created by Wilderness Cooking’s master chef Tavakkul. Slow-cooked over an open flame, this oxtail dish becomes ...