Elena Valeriote is a writer of stories about food, farming, culture, and travel that explore the connection between people and place. Her work has appeared in publications including Gastro Obscura, ...

One thing we can all agree upon is that coffee is a beverage that people around the world enjoy. But for some, coffee is even more enjoyable when paired with a deliciously sweet and smooth creamer, ...

This vegetarian pasta with creamy pumpkin sauce and toasted hazelnuts is rich and seasonal, pairing velvety pumpkin with crunchy nuts for an elegant, comforting fall meal. Using canned pumpkin means ...

California Live’s Jobeth Devera visits The Grove at Copia to meet Chef Deborah, who reveals her industry secrets to incorporating stinging nettles into your home cooking. Learn how to make stinging ...

We love using hazelnuts in baked goods, or simply coating them in a sugary-spice blend and snacking on them constantly, but ridding the nuts of their paper-thin peel can be cumbersome. Here is an ...

Many varieties of nuts have culinary marriages that work beautifully. Pecans and pies, pine nuts and pesto, macadamias and cookies and almonds and stir fry dishes. But one of my favorites is hazelnuts ...

An archaeologist samples pollen from soil layers to decipher historical vegetation changes, a method complementing hazelnut shell analysis (Nils Forshed via Courthouse News). (CN) — Researchers ...

An archaeologist takes samples of pollen found in soil to understand the changing vegetation of a site: a companion technique to the authors' analysis of hazelnut shells. If we could stand in a ...