Food

Buon Appetito!

In the panoply of better-known Italian-American holiday traditions—if any of them are truly known beyond the nearly 16 million of us in the United States whose family roots go back to Italy—the Feast of the Seven Fishes looms largest. Based on a Sicilian tradition called la vigilia, this Christmas Eve meal is a multi­course pescatory […]

Food

Harvest Grain Bowl | In Season

This is the story of two local kids made good: the butternut squash and the Baldwin apple. The former is a native of Stow, Massachusetts, bred by a farmer named Charles Leggett. He named the butternut for its smooth-as-butter texture and nutty flavor and introduced it to horticulturists at the nearby Waltham Field Station. They, […]

Magazine

Remembering Julia | Yankee Classic

A gem from the Yankee archives finds the queen of cooking pondering her next steps. Here’s an abridged version of Richard Bacon’s “Still Cooking with a Flair” from November 1979.

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