Chinese Chestnut

Chestnut Hill Shopping Center announces more tenants

Bernard's, a Chinese restaurant that's been a fixture at the Mall at Chestnut Hill for 23 years, will relocate...

Saving the American chestnut tree

If poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote “The Village Blacksmith” today, it would likely begin, “Under the scraggly, diseased and dying chestnut tree ... .” For more than a century, a relentless blight has decimated the American chestnut tree, driving the nation’s once grandest hardwood to the edge of extinction.

Shake Shack coming to Chestnut Hill next year

New York's Shake Shack, which bills itself as the modern-day "road side" burger stand, will open its first Massachusetts...

Developer announces new tenants at Chestnut Hill Shopping Center

The Chestnut Hill Shopping Center just got three new tenants.

Ironing clothes was even more of a chore before electricity

Cowles Syndicate Inc. This 8-inch early-20th-century copy of an ancient Chinese iron used to press cloth sold for $89 at a December 2011 Ivey-Selkirk auction in St. Louis. Its shape inspired a 1950s ashtray. An antique Chinese iron would sell for hundreds of dollars.

A La Carte: Asian Harbor opening; Mother's Day specials

ASIAN HARBOR, which serves Japanese, Chinese and Thai cuisine, opened Wednesday in Capital City Shopping Center.

American chestnut trees coming back to Hollis

Beaver Brook Association (BBA) has entered into partnership with The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) to create and maintain the first large-scale test planting of potentially blight-resistant American chestnuts in northern New England.

Briefs: Kidnapping a misunderstanding

Yuba City A reported kidnapping in Yuba City proved to be little more than a misunderstanding Tuesday but not before law enforcement responded in force, said Lt. Tom Tappe. Police responded to a call at 1:03 p.m. that a man had taken his mother at gunpoint in the 700 block of Chestnut Street and...

Weekend preview: Flying ears, and airplanes, too

Sonya Thomas is the No. 1-ranked female in Major League Eating, the No. 4 competitive eater overall in MLE. For five years straight, she has won the Buffalo chicken wing showdown in Buffalo, N.Y., the last two times outdevouring Joey Chestnut, the reigning Nathan’s hot dog-eating champion. Legendary Nathan’s hot-dogger Kobayashi has tried and failed to beat Sonya’s fruitcake-eating record (five ...

A guide to the Illawarra's foodie delights

When Naomi Hudson was growing up, family occasions were always celebrated at the same ‘‘Chinese place in Woonona’’.