Peanuts are my favorite misnamed food. (They’re legumes, not nuts. In a similar vein, buckwheat has nothing to do with wheat; gooseberries have nothing to do with geese. Jerusalem artichokes are sunflower tubers, not artichokes. Makes you wonder who was in charge of naming these things…) But I digress. The point is, I love peanuts [...]
Chestnuts roasting over an open fire used to be pretty popular in the States, but that was before chestnut trees that had been imported from Asia caused the American stocks to fall prey to a nasty fungus. By the 1940s, chestnut trees were very few and far between. Roasted chestnuts remain popular in other countries, [...]
