Examples are the chestnut, hazelnut, and acorn.
+90 212 251 5335, naifistanbul.com Karaköy Güllüoğlu This sweetshop and cafe close to Karaköy pier is constantly filled with every imaginable Istanbulite from every walk of life, here to eat chocolate, chestnut, hazelnut or orange baklava, traditional flan or Turkish delight.
Re the article about starting oak trees from acorns ["Springing a Mighty Oak From an Acorn," Cuttings, Feb. 2]: These same guidelines could be applied to more tasty nuts, like chestnuts, hazelnuts, black walnuts, hickory nuts and butternuts.
Where to stay Agriturismo Tetto Garro (doubles from €70 B&B) is a working 15-hectare farm of walnut, chestnut and hazelnut trees, whose impeccably renovated barn offers surprisingly stylish and contemporary rooms.
When I visited in mid-October, the Piedmont-inspired set menu (44 euros, or about $64 at $1.52 to the euro) started off with a lusciously warm chestnut and hazelnut soup followed by a salad of catalog-perfect arugula leaves and sautéed porcini mushrooms dressed with a winelike balsamic vinegar.
The Langhe region is where barolo, barbaresco, asti and moscato wines come from, as well as many delicious goats cheeses, chestnut honeys, hazelnuts and - yes - Ferrero Rocher.
This is a shiny, pale-yellow oval or fingerling-shaped potato with a firm texture and a flavor suggesting chestnuts and hazelnuts.
Chestnuts, walnuts, hazelnuts and pomegranates.
Gulluoglu's baklava, prepared daily in Brooklyn, are less drippingly sweet than the overly familiar Greek version, so they don't overwhelm flavors like chestnut, sour cherry, hazelnut with milk, and pistachio (tasting portions, $2.75 to $3.75; to go, $10.50 to $16.95 a pound).
Best known in this respect are the nutcrackers (Nucifraga), which feed largely on the "nuts" of beech, oak, walnut, chestnut, and hazel; the jays (Garrulus), which hide hazelnuts and acorns; the nuthatches; and the California woodpecker (Balanosphyra), which may embed literally thousands of acorns, almonds, and pecan nuts in bark fissures or holes of trees.
Hazelnuts, chestnuts and acorns fall into this category.
