On 6/7/2014 5:40 PM, dalep wrote:

> We go to Rome every winter, and I love the street vendor chestnuts
> served in a cone. My family always had them at Christmas time. I
> love them, but most people find them bland.

I think they have a great flavor. Nothing like walking by a cart
selling them in Manhattan, I can't resist them.

> The trees are everywhere in the parks in Rome and the chestnuts are
> all over the ground. They were plentiful in the US at one time.

Someone in my neighborhood has several of them. The squirrels have
a field day running off with them to bury somewhere.

>In the early 1900's the chestnut blight killed all of the trees
>in North America.

Now we have different varieties grown in the US.

nancy