Acorns, once released of their tannins, are remarkably sweet foods. They’re filled with amazingly high quantities of sugars, fiber, carbohydrates, fat and protein. They have a flavor somewhat ...

With enough processing, acorns can be transformed into a uniquely flavored flour. (Marcus Schneck, [email protected]) A bountiful crop of acorns in many areas of Pennsylvania this fall makes for ...

Another year of cooking, experiments, and insights, and I still don't think I've come even close to unlocking the potential of acorns. Yes, acorns. You know, those things that fall from oak trees? You ...

The journey - a pursuit of acorn understanding - starts on a cliff in Big Sur, wends all the way to a hot dog stand by the train tracks in Martinez, and climbs into the redwoods above Oakland. It's a ...

These days, Americans are all about eating local foods. But one important local crop drops to the ground mostly unnoticed every fall. Well, unless you're a squirrel. Yes, we're talking about acorns.

Remember those pink, puffy cookies Carol whipped up in the “Not Tomorrow Yet” episode of The Walking Dead, the ones sweetened with canned beets and powered by homemade acorn flour and pureed water ...

It’s September, and the snaps and cracks echoing from the ground can mean just one thing: acorn time! Yes, you can eat them, and yes, they do have a distinctive flavor. But before you get too excited ...