It's been a very long time since vendors sold the American chestnut on city sidewalks. It's no longer the variety whose smell some people associate with Christmastime as it wafts from street carts.

Efforts are continuing to battle the spread of the invasive water chestnut plant in the Oswegatchie River, Black Lake and most recently, the St. Lawrence River. Brad Baldwin, a professor of biology at ...

Explore new horizons, including French cuisine featuring fall truffles and Japanese chestnuts. (Reporter: Chiara Terzuolo) Discover the stories behind the ingredients that make this city so ...

Cut little crosses into the chestnuts, either on the sides or at the base. This is to stop them from exploding, which is very likely to happen unless you give the steam a route to escape.