chestnuts roasting in a pan over an open flame - Kabvisio/Getty Images In this context, scoring involves making a cut in the top of each chestnut before it goes over the open fire or into the oven.

Jack Frost might nip at your nose. Tiny tots will find it hard to sleep on Christmas Eve. But the opening lyrics to Nat King's Cole's 1946 classic, "The Christmas Song," probably falls flat with most ...

As Christmas approaches — this wonderful time of year for Christians, non-Christians and secularists, for the rich, the poor and the middle class, for children and geezers — I have some advice that ...

MANISTEE, MI – Roasted chestnuts. Horse-drawn carriages. Carolers. A large evergreen lumbering down the street. These are a few of the staples of an old-fashioned Christmas in this Northern Michigan ...

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 ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. If roasted chestnuts aren't part of your family's Christmas traditions, they should be. They're warm and buttery soft, with sweet, earthy, and ...