Black walnuts are among the hardest nuts to crack. They are right up there with hickory nuts and butternuts, but I only have experience with black walnuts. The nutcrackers that abound right now in the ...

When it comes to black walnuts, getting to the meat of the matter is easier said than done. Even veterans of autumn’s first-frost foraging campaigns occasionally surrender to the sheer toughness of ...

“Dear Santa, I would like tickets to all 81 Nationals baseball games and a nutcracker that cracks nuts, ” my 6-year-old son’s note read. The nutcracker doll is by far the more difficult request and, ...