Chestnuts

"I've been interested in chestnuts as long as I can remember," said Webb, who recalled looking up the tree in an encyclopedia in elementary school. ❋ Juliet Eilperin (2010)

Cooked plain chestnuts, unlike the über-rich marron glacé, have a dusty flavour that is helped in something sweet such as these brownies by marinating them first in a simple mixture of brown sugar, vanilla and rum. ❋ Dan Lepard (2010)

I first became interested in Chinese chestnuts from an article I read in the early '30's in a Department of Agriculture yearbook which I think had been written by Mr. Gravatt. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Grossing the Italian frontier without a passport, and selling chestnuts from a barrow on the northern boulevards, and being given fifty days’ imprisonment in London for working without a permit, and being made love to by a rich old woman in a hotel, who gave him a diamond ring and afterwards accused him of stealing it, were among his experiences. ❋ Unknown (1933)

* If you cannot find fresh water chestnuts, which is a very sad thing, then I would suggest that you do like Ming Tsai says and use jicama instead. ❋ Unknown (2005)

But this sounds pretty good and I love the idea of chestnuts! ❋ Unknown (2006)

Dr. Gilman developed a method of identifying horses, equivalent to human fingerprinting, that is still used to help detect "ringers" - that is, impostors - by taking photographs of vestigial growths, known as chestnuts or night eyes, that every horse has on the inside of its legs and that are unique to each. ❋ By BRUCE WEBER (2011)

Thank the Lord! though this is the first month, it is the last week, of my reign; and I shall resign my crown with great satisfaction to a bouillie of chestnuts, which is just invented and whose annals will be illustrated by so many indigestions, that Paris will not want any thing else for three weeks. ❋ Horace Walpole (1757)

I wonder - will there be "chestnuts" roasted on the "open fire"??? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Nestled below rugged hills topped by China's ancient Great Wall, Leaning Bridge is a cluster of one-story stone-and-brick farmhouses where farmers raise corn and cash crops such as chestnuts or apricots, much as their ancestors did. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Last night, Julie and I found the edible kind of chestnuts at dominion, we're going to try roasting them tonight. ❋ Gregarious Monk (2007)

Of course that interpretation of "chestnuts" had occurred to me, but it seems a little blatant for Victorian use. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Of course, all stories are "chestnuts" an hour after they are told. ❋ Harry Furniss (N/A)

Dr. MacDaniels: Mr. Chairman, in view of the whole situation of chestnut incompatibility of stock with scion, what would be the position that we in the Northern Nut Growers Association can take in advising people what kind of chestnuts they should plant? ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Every one knows it; but no one feels like expressing it for the reason that such exposures are "chestnuts" to the St. Louisan. ❋ Unknown (1905)

Everybody in the neighbourhood used to be amused at Farmer Lawrence's little jokes, and one boy (the wag of the village) who got his ears pulled by the old gentleman for stealing his "chestnuts" went so far as to call him "a silly old chess-protector!" ❋ Henry Ernest Dudeney (1893)

"They're not the kind of chestnuts we have in Boston," she said; "ours are soft like potatoes." ❋ Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1877)

One of the common "chestnuts" is that when one is in a "bull market" one should simply "buy all dips." ❋ Unknown (2010)