Hazelnuts, also called filberts, are rich, buttery and elegant. Perhaps the most difficult aspect of working with them is removing their skins. Here's how to do it: Place raw (shelled) hazelnuts in a ...

Hazelnuts provided early humans with a good source of energy and raw materials. “Farming started in southern Sweden and marked a transition to more open areas with grasslands,” Karl Ljung, a study ...

An archaeologist takes samples of pollen found in soil to understand the changing vegetation of a site: a companion technique to the authors' analysis of hazelnut shells. If we could stand in a ...