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| Image: American chestnut (source) |
This post's title was taken from "The Root of the Matter" by Tom Christopher (Martha Stewart Living, Nov. 2010) about the loss of "emblematic American trees" as a result of chestnut blight, Dutch elm disease, emerald ash borer and Asian long-horned beetle, sudden oak death, and mountain pine beetle (via climate change). Christopher noted that the American chestnut (
Castanea dentata) "is posed for a comeback" as a blight-resistant species courtesy of wheat genes. Read Christopher's entire article
here.
Recently I drank cream of European chestnut (
Castanea sativa) soup and look forward to a local version of this
earthy soup.
