Autumn is here, and with it comes not only brisk breezes, beautiful leaves and pumpkins, but the vile reek of the ginkgo nut. Ginkgo trees—originally from Asia—now grow in cool climates around the ...

Ginkgo is so often misspelt as gingko (including by me) that the Oxford English Dictionary now accepts the spelling variation. According to the Oxford Companion to Food, “Ginkgo biloba is the sole ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Within the shell of the ginkgo nut “is a single green kernel that has a sweetish flavor,” writes The Nut Factory on its Web site (www.thenutfactory.com). “When roasted the ...