LOOHUIZEN, Ria: On Chestnuts – The Trees and their Seeds

the horse chestnut and sweet chestnut for healing and eating [Prospect Books, 2006]  Ria Loohuizen is a literary translator, so it’s not suprising she embellishes this little paperback about chestnuts with poems and stories about Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson and...

O’DONNELL, Mietta: Mietta’s Italian Family Recipes

[Black Inc., 2000]  While only containing four chestnut recipes [ chestnut mousse, chestnut tortino with zabaglione, chestnut ravioli and roast chestnut and chicken salad] the late Mietta O’Donnell describes a cosmopolitan Melbourne cultural and restaurant scene...