Chestnuts and corns are actually foods from opposite seasons, chestnuts are winter fruits, and corns become ripe at the end of summer naturally. You can find them any season nowadays thanks to freezers, but we recommend eating them in season.
Chestnuts are a very valuable delicacy, they usually come from forests around Marmara, and sell rather expensive, 6 Liras for 100 grams at this vendor.
Corns are cheap, 1 or 2 Liras at most, but the varieties sold nowadays usually are extremely tasteless, "industrial" type corns, grown probably as animal food. Tasty corns are from heirloom seeds, and the difference is visually obvious : The grains are same size and orderly in industrial types, whereas it is just the opposite in the organic traditional corns. They are highly recommended.
30 сен 2024
