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Article: Fighting the blight.(study on chestnuts)
- Article from:
- Art Culinaire
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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CHESTINUTS INSPIRE PASSIONS WELL BEYOND THOSE GENERATED IN our hearts and minds by the ordinary nut. Art Culinaire first explored the chestnut's uses, history and unique character in Issue 46. Encouraging recent advances in the scientific community's efforts to reintroduce the blight-devastated American chestnut to the eastern United States has led us to revisit the topic nearly ten years later.
Castanea sativa, or the European chestnut, is actually a native of Western Asia, and has been cultivated in Europe's temperate climate regions since 300 BC. The nut's high starch and low oil content has made it an especially useful food for centuries, although in Europe ...