Hello fellow chestnut lovers, Brian and I are off next week on a grand chestnut tour - well not so grand just visiting a couple of places in Italy and France but we are really looking forward to it. First off will be Paris and Brian has already booked three restaurants! ... Read more
September 2014 Update – China
Hello reader, I'm just starting to get into the net sphere and whilst I've had a newsletter for some time writing has been very sporadic so I thought it would be useful to keep visitors to our web pages updated via shorter and less formal updates posted here. It seems that ... Read more
Guest Chef – Patrizia Simone
Our First Guest Chef is Patrizia Simone from Simones in Bright, NE Victoria. Simone's was recently awarded 2 hats in the 2006 Age Good Food Guide and with her husband George doing a great job front of house and her son Anthony as sous chef it is truely a family business. Eating ... Read more
Guest Chef – Maggie Beer
I first met Maggie Beer when I was Executive Officer for the chestnut association. We spent an hour on the phone talking chestnuts and this resulted in me being quoted in her book "Maggie's Orchard". Over the years we have become friends and spend a few days together each year ... Read more
Guest Chef – Stefano Manfredi
The guest chef for this month is Stefano Manfredi. I first met Stefano (Steve) in October 2000 when he was a guest judge at the cooking competition at the Oven Valley International Festival. I remember the date as I entered the “Best Traditional Sweet Dish” with my Monte Bianco ... Read more
Traditional Christmas Fare
The approaching of Christmas brings to mind images of precious time spent with family and friends, snowmen and sleigh rides, glittering boxes and bows, the shining faces of children on Christmas morning, and the smell of sumptuous Christmas foods wafting in the air. For those in ... Read more
Farmstand Shutdown for Selling ‘Poisonous’ Chestnuts
Officials: West Barnstable Farm Stand Shut Down for ‘Poison’ Chestnuts (Horse chestnuts / konkers) October 10, 2014 BARNSTABLE – The Town of Barnstable Board of Health has shut down a farmstand on Route 149/Meetinghouse Way in West Barnstable because of evidence it was ... Read more
Christmas 2014 Media Release
Here is our latest Media Release for Christmas 2014. Last year Brian and I were watching the Christmas cooking shows of mainly UK celebrity chefs on television in the week before Christmas. It was incredible - Nigella Lawson saying "You can't have Christmas without ... Read more
Marrons Glaces
We are proud to announce that freshly iced marrons glaces are now available for all marrons glace lovers. We agree that Christmas is just not Christmas without the sweet creamy texture of a perfect, freshly iced marrons glaces. In 2008 we visited the famous marrons glace maker ... Read more
Chestnut Tour to Hungary and France
Jane & Brian are leading a group of 15 chestnut industry leaders to the II European Chestnut Congress in Debrecen, Hungary and then onto the Ardeche region of France for a week to experience the Castagnades - a month long festival celebrating chestnuts. The group will be ... Read more
