NYC Chestnut Tradition
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NYC Chestnut Tradition
Is almost no more! I always loved going into the city and smelling the roasted chestnuts.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_localn...bouchon=501,ny
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_localn...bouchon=501,ny
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From the article:
Say what? Baked sweet potatoes from street vendors?
No thanks.
As for chestnuts . . . honestly, I had never encountered them in NYC at Xmas, but that must be a fluke.
It is one of my favorite things in Paris during Xmas. They are everywhere on the street and the smell is absolutely amazing. (We certainly never had anything like that in Los Angeles).
Street vendors in just about every arrondissement roasting chestnuts on inverted 50 gal. oil drums.
Oddly, as much as I love the smell, I've never tried them. The article you link to pretty much quotes folks as being of the opinion they are not that good.
Good grief . . . the memory of the smell is all I can think of now.
I'll check it out when I'm in NYC next week.
Roasted chestnuts appear to going the way of baked sweet potatoes, another once-ubiquitous sidewalk snack that went extinct in the 1950s, said New York food guru Arthur Schwartz.
No thanks.
As for chestnuts . . . honestly, I had never encountered them in NYC at Xmas, but that must be a fluke.
It is one of my favorite things in Paris during Xmas. They are everywhere on the street and the smell is absolutely amazing. (We certainly never had anything like that in Los Angeles).
Street vendors in just about every arrondissement roasting chestnuts on inverted 50 gal. oil drums.
Oddly, as much as I love the smell, I've never tried them. The article you link to pretty much quotes folks as being of the opinion they are not that good.
Good grief . . . the memory of the smell is all I can think of now.
I'll check it out when I'm in NYC next week.
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I have the fire started!!! and the chestnuts are also ready......... I have them sitting near the hottub......
