Cooking Advice

The Readable Feast

Up-and-coming literary festival The Readable Feast, scheduled for June 23 in Boston, celebrates the best food writing and cookbooks around.

Massachusetts

Where to Eat in Nantucket, Massachusetts

On one hand, there’s a simplicity to dining on Nantucket, the smaller but never the lesser of the Cape’s two sister islands. Unlike Martha’s Vineyard, which is divided into six towns, with restaurants scattered here and there, Nantucket is a single town unto itself (yes, there are eateries out by ’Sconset and in the mid-island […]

Condiments

Maple Syrup | In Season

It’s impossible to oversell the importance of maple season to New Englanders, and not just the farmers who make (or subsidize) a living from their acres of sugarbush. Even for the rest of us, those initial trickles of amber syrup represent the first meaningful sign of spring. The sight of a sugar shack billowing clouds […]

Food

Brooke Dojny’s Red Potato, Fennel, and Shrimp Chowder

Just as we were wrapping up work on on our big chowder story for Yankee back in 2015, I learned that Maine cookbook author Brooke Dojny was publishing a new book called Chowderland: Hearty Soups & Stews with Sides & Salads to Match. I’m a longtime fan of Brooke’s work, especially her New England Clamshack Cookbook, […]

History

The History of Chocolate in New England

Explore the history of chocolate in New England and learn how it’s made at Captain Jackson’s Historic Chocolate Shop at Boston’s Old North Church.

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