Food

Roasted Red Pepper Soup

While gazpacho is the perfect chilled summer soup, and a hearty bowl of beef stew is just the thing for a cold winter night, this slightly-spicy roasted red pepper soup is the perfect bowl for those in-between months. Because it tastes delicious both hot or cold, we think it’s the perfect year-round soup. Having said […]

New Hampshire

SLIDE SHOW: Keene Pumpkin Festival

One of New England’s top festival events for over 20 years! Pumpkin Fest in downtown Keene, NH features thousands of carved jack-o-lanterns, live music, crafts, food, activities, and much more throughout picturesque downtown. Bring a carved pumpkin to contribute to the count and hope for a record-breaking total. Assistant Editor Aimee Seavey’s slideshow captures candid […]

History

Constant Comment

Since 1945, the Bigelow Tea Company has been supplying New England and beyond with quality teas, and none is more popular than the brand’s signature blend, Constant Comment. It was invented by Ruth Campbell Bigelow in the kitchen of her New York City brownstone in 1945. Unhappy with the teas available on the market at […]

Fish & Seafood

Swordfish Kabobs | Summer Grilling

The winter holiday season might be the most popular time of year for partying and eating, but there’s nothing like the fun and flavor of a summer barbecue, complete with in-season, garden-fresh dishes. These swordfish kabobs have become a staple in my house this summer. They’re perfect for a weeknight dinner, but also special enough […]

Connecticut

The Southington Drive-In | Nostalgic Movie Fun

With only 20 drive-in theatres left in New England, Connecticut’s Southington Drive-In is turning nostalgic movie fun into a source of community enrichment. When a traffic jam stretched for more than two miles in the quiet town of Southington, Connecticut, one summer Saturday in 2010, the source of the backup wasn’t a fender bender but […]

Food

Ice Cream | Recipe with a History

New England’s four-season love affair with ice cream is part of a historic legacy. Hundreds of years after the ancient Greeks and Romans enjoyed icy treats of snow-cooled wine and Chinese rulers began turning fermented milk and flour into a tasty chilled dessert (or so the legends go), America’s first president plunked down the equivalent […]

Food

Steamed Brown Bread in a Can

New England may be small in size, but as we all know, it lacks for nothing in significance. I love that I am always learning something new about our six states — through the beauty of the landscape, lessons from the landmarks, and stories from the many people that have called it home. We certainly […]

Food

Fresh Strawberry Sauce | Making Use of Early Summer Berries

Early summer in New England arguably belongs to the sweet and ruby red strawberry. In the 1958 volume Rain, Hail, and Baked Beans: A New England Seasonal Cook Book, authors Robb Sagendorph and Duncan MacDonald (Yankee‘s founder and former food editor, respectively) say “There is nothing quite equal to the year’s first dish of plump, […]

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