Pandora, have you tasted both kinds? If you have, is the chestnut honey from Italy also "slightly bitter and brown"?
Yes. We often use chestnut honey in Piedmont. Because in Piedmont use to eat the very matured cheese (such as "Toma stagionata"😉 with a little honey on it. In the most elegance restaurants they use to serve several quality fo cheese togheter with 3-4 quality of honey and italian fruit "Mostarda". BTW chestnut honey is *less* sweet then the others and yes, it is brown. I think, looking at your links, that first honey is very expensive (18 $) and the second is at good price 3.50 $ Look at this (terra in cielo is a good brand) ; they sell products made in monastery. The capacity of the pot is 1 kilo and they sell it at about 7,50 ?. They say it is good for blood circulation and to cure weariness. http://www.terraincielo.it/negozio/
Pandora, have you tasted both kinds? If you have, is the chestnut honey from Italy also "slightly bitter and brown"?
Yes. We often use chestnut honey in Piedmont. Because in Piedmont use to eat the very matured cheese (such as "Toma stagionata"😉 with a little honey on it. In the most elegance restaurants they use to serve several quality fo cheese togheter with 3-4 quality of honey and italian fruit "Mostarda". BTW chestnut honey is *less* sweet then the others and yes, it is brown. I think, looking at your links, that first honey is very expensive (18 $) and the second is at good price 3.50 $ Look at this (terra in cielo is a good brand) ; they sell products made in monastery. The capacity of the pot is 1 kilo and they sell it at about 7,50 ?. They say it is good for blood circulation and to cure weariness. http://www.terraincielo.it/negozio/
Cheers Pandora
Yhanks, Pandora. I use Italian honey EVERY day. My next order will be some chestnut honey. Thanks for all your tips. De Dee
Pandora, have you tasted both kinds? If you have, is the chestnut honey from Italy also "slightly bitter and brown"?
Yes. We often use chestnut honey in Piedmont. Because in Piedmont use to eat the very matured cheese (such as "Toma stagionata"😉 with a little honey on it. In the most elegance restaurants they use to serve several quality fo cheese togheter with 3-4 quality of honey and italian fruit "Mostarda". BTW chestnut honey is *less* sweet then the others and yes, it is brown. I think, looking at your links, that first honey is very expensive (18 $) and the second is at good price 3.50 $ Look at this (terra in cielo is a good brand) ; they sell products made in monastery. The capacity of the pot is 1 kilo and they sell it at about 7,50 ?. They say it is good for blood circulation and to cure weariness. http://www.terraincielo.it/negozio/
Cheers Pandora
Yhanks, Pandora. I use Italian honey EVERY day. My next order will be some chestnut honey. Thanks for all your tips. De Dee
You are welcome? Haven't you got chestnut honey in USA? Pandora
Yhanks, Pandora. I use Italian honey EVERY day. My next order will be some chestnut honey. Thanks for all your tips. De Dee
You are welcome? Haven't you got chestnut honey in USA? Pandora
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Pandora, I assume we have no chestnut honey because we have no chestnut trees. "This tree, once the dominant species over much of our Eastern forests, was brought down by a disease." http://www.munic.state.ct.us/BURLINGTON/chestnuttree.htm For decades plant pathologists and breeders tried to create a blight-resistant tree by crossing our own species with the resistant Chinese tree, but always with unsatisfactory results. Now, advances in our understanding of genetics have shown us where those early researchers went wrong. More importantly, we now know what path we must take to successfully breed an American chestnut with resistance to this deadly invader. We now know we can have this precious tree back. (American Chestnut Foundation.)"
Correct me if I'm wrong about bees making honey from the flowers of this grand old tree. Dee Dee
Pandora, I assume we have no chestnut honey because we have no chestnut trees.
Why do you say that? Just curious, because we do have chestnut trees. And chestnut honey, although it's not all that common. Are you talking about some specific kind of chestnut tree?
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Yhanks, Pandora. I use Italian honey EVERY day. My next order will be some chestnut honey. Thanks for all your tips. De Dee
You are welcome? Haven't you got chestnut honey in USA? Pandora
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Pandora, I assume we have no chestnut honey because we have no chestnut trees. "This tree, once the dominant species over much of our Eastern forests, was brought down by a disease." http://www.munic.state.ct.us/BURLINGTON/chestnuttree.htm For decades plant pathologists and breeders tried to create a blight-resistant tree by crossing our own species with the resistant Chinese tree, but always with unsatisfactory results. Now, advances in our understanding of genetics have shown us where those early researchers went wrong. More importantly, we now know what path we must take to successfully breed an American chestnut with resistance to this deadly invader. We now know we can have this precious tree back. (American Chestnut Foundation.)"
Oh! I didn't know all that!!! I 'm so sorry! Do they know the name of the fungus?
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Correct me if I'm wrong about bees making honey from the flowers of this grand old tree.
Yes! They make honey from flowers 🙂 Cheers and thank you for the very interesting link Pandora
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Pandora, I assume we have no chestnut honey because we have no chestnut trees.
Why do you say that? Just curious, because we do have chestnut trees. And chestnut honey, although it's not all that common. Are you talking about some specific kind of chestnut tree?
nancy
Ohhhh! Now we will have a battle of opinions 🙂)) Pandora
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Pandora, I assume we have no chestnut honey because we have no chestnut trees.
Why do you say that? Just curious, because we do have chestnut trees. And chestnut honey, although it's not all that common. Are you talking about some specific kind of chestnut tree?
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Ohhhh! Now we will have a battle of opinions 🙂))
No opinions, we do have chestnut orchards here, anyone can google. And chestnut honey.
Pandora, I assume we have no chestnut honey because we have no chestnut trees.
Why do you say that? Just curious, because we do have chestnut trees. And chestnut honey, although it's not all that common. Are you talking about some specific kind of chestnut tree?
It's the American Chestnut tree that's affected by disease... there are still plenty of chestnut trees that grow very well in the US. The Chinese Chestnut is a wonderful tree with excellent eating nuts. The Horse Chestnut also grows very well in the US, its nuts are not considered edible by humans but are consumed by wildlife, I'm sure its flowers are visited by bees.
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Pandora, I assume we have no chestnut honey because we have no chestnut trees.
Why do you say that? Just curious, because we do have chestnut trees. And chestnut honey, although it's not all that common. Are you talking about some specific kind of chestnut tree?
Pandora, I assume we have no chestnut honey because we have no chestnut trees.
Why do you say that? Just curious, because we do have chestnut trees. And chestnut honey, although it's not all that common. Are you talking about some specific kind of chestnut tree?
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Yes, the American Chestnut Tree.
Well ... we still have chestnuts. Are those chestnut trees in Italy American Chestnut Trees?
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Pandora, I assume we have no chestnut honey because we have no chestnut trees.
Why do you say that? Just curious, because we do have chestnut trees. And chestnut honey, although it's not all that common. Are you talking about some specific kind of chestnut tree?
nancy
http://www.acf.org/Chestnut_history.htm Then the chestnut blight struck: First discovered in 1904 in New York City, the blight - an Asian fungus to which our native chestnuts had very little resistance - spread quickly. In its wake it left only dead and dying stems. By 1950, except for the shrubby root sprouts the species continually produces (and which also quickly become infected), the keystone species on some nine million acres of eastern forests had disappeared.
Pandora, I assume we have no chestnut honey because we have no chestnut trees.
Why do you say that? Just curious, because we do have chestnut trees. And chestnut honey, although it's not all that common. Are you talking about some specific kind of chestnut tree?
It's the American Chestnut tree that's affected by disease... there are still plenty of chestnut trees that grow very well in the US.
Of course, as you say ... I have chestnuts from an american orchard as we speak (they are dried), in my freezer. I'm quite fond of chestnuts.
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The Chinese Chestnut is a wonderful tree with excellent eating nuts. The Horse Chestnut also grows very well in the US, its nuts are not considered edible by humans but are consumed by wildlife, I'm sure its flowers are visited by bees.
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> Pandora, I assume we have no chestnut honey because we have no chestnut > trees.
Why do you say that? Just curious, because we do have chestnut trees. And chestnut honey, although it's not all that common. Are you talking about some specific kind of chestnut tree?
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Ohhhh! Now we will have a battle of opinions 🙂))
No opinions, we do have chestnut orchards here, anyone can google. And chestnut honey.
nancy
Oh! I think Dee would be very interested to hear this 🙂 Of which country are you talking about? Pandora
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Pandora, I assume we have no chestnut honey because we have no chestnut trees.
Why do you say that? Just curious, because we do have chestnut trees. And chestnut honey, although it's not all that common. Are you talking about some specific kind of chestnut tree?
nancy
Yes, the American Chestnut Tree. Dee Dee
Explain to me, please. Because I begin to understand nothing. Cheers Pandora
