Box Hot and Good

An Autumn Flavor Box

Autumn is the time of year when nature as we collect them. The place of election is by the fire watching the rain fall outside, while we savor some warm chestnuts….Hot and Good!
The November's Box gets dyed in golden and yellow, to bring you all the flavors of this special time of the year.

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This month travel through..

Chestnuts and Chestnut Trees from Terra Fria

In November it arrives the time for magusto, and the summer of St. Martin. It's time to taste the new wine and embrace the autumn weather. At streets from north to south of Portugal smells of roasted chestnuts. Reminds us of the childhood days when the cartridge made of newspaper sheet let the warm from the roasted chestnuts pass through our hands and the smoke danced in the wind.
But from where do they come from? The chestnuts? We went looking for them, to its birthplace, in the Northeast of Portugal. A mountainous land, but filled with stunning flora and fauna.
We travel by car and on foot and walked among young and ancient chestnut groves, traveled though hill roads and verdant valleys, went from Bragança to the self nominated chestnuts capital in Sernancelhe and in the end we find that the birthplace of the "Hot and Good!" chestnuts is a Cold Land filled with charm.

Source: On the Route of the Chestnut in Trás-os-Montes, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro.