Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While our culinary memories of the American chestnut have mostly faded, the fruit of the "bread tree" as it is sometimes called, ...

HORSE CHESTNUT trees are in fruit and a fresh, plump, lustrous brown conker peeping out of its spiky case at this time of year is a lovely find. When it falls from the tree, the leathery husk that ...

Johanna Le Pape, French-born award-winning pastry chef who lives in Southern California, has written a cookbook that revolutionizes the art of baking. Her book, “Patisserie Revolution” (Robert Rose), ...

Seedless fruits are highly valued for their superior edible quality and consumer appeal, yet the biological mechanisms that allow fruits to develop without fertilization remain poorly understood, ...