Chestnut Recipes from Around the World

Reader Contribution by Jonny Malks
Published on December 28, 2020
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A hearty cluster of chestnuts in their burr ready to be processed and cooked fresh! 

Having just wrapped up with Christmas — a holiday whose, perhaps, most historically famous song is subtitled Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire — I thought it would be fun to take a look at some new ways to incorporate chestnuts into your diet for the upcoming year. As I explained in a little chestnut post I wrote up last month, these miraculous nuts formed the foundation of American cuisine for hundreds of years before the North American chestnut blight of the early 20th Century rendered the American chestnut, Castanea dentata, virtually extinct.

While the chestnut has since vanished from the vast majority of American tables, its popularity and cultural significance have only grown amongst certain ethnic groups in the U.S. and, certainly, in its traditional appeal abroad. Not only are chestnuts a yummy way for you to try something new in your kitchen, but their consumption as a starch on a large scale has the potential to bring myriad benefits to the future of our food system.

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