Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire

October 15th, 2008 by discover

Chestnuts being roasted over an open fire

I’m not sure if we’re going to make it to the Chestnut festival or not next weekend, since we’ve got Elsa with us and she’s planning on spending the night at a friend’s, and then we’ve been invited to a friend’s for dinner too, and we promised her we’d take her to Saint Tropez next weekend, because she was too young to remember it the last time she was there.

So, I thought I’d share this photo of our visit to one of the Chestnut festivals from last year. In this picture, you can see the chestnuts being roasted on an open fire. The smell is really heavenly and the festivals themselves are full of fun and interesting little vendors, offering all kinds of foods made with chestnuts – including baked goods, chestnut ice cream, candied chestnuts, soups, and of course, roated chestnuts.

I think I mentioned that I love to eat roasted chestnuts. If I get the time before I my English class for kids tomorrow, I’ll try to run over to La Place de la Liberte, and take a photo or two of the chestnut cart that sells freshly roasted chestnuts. The same guy has had his cart there since I moved to France, and as I’ve probably also mentioned before, chestnuts are now one of my favorite things about fall on the French Riviera, and something I look forward to all year. Chestnut seasons lasts from October til January, and when he packs his wagon up and disappears, we know that spring is just around the corner…in fact, the mimosas start blooming right after that, which, for us on the Riviera, means spring.

Enjoy the photo…and I’ll take more when we do get to go to the chestnut festival, I promise!

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