Yankee’s January-February issue features one of my favorite recipes: a dish of steamed cod (cooked in foil packets) served over fragrant rice with a deliciously simple ginger-basil sauce. The sauce, made with butter, basil, ginger, star anise, cumin, and chile, comes from a Southeast Asian vegetarian stew that my friend and colleague, Molly Watson, developed […]
This warm, aromatic, and healthy gluten-free quinoa pudding is based on recipe that blogger and cookbook author Béatrice Peltre (www.latartinegourmande.com) created for our upcoming summer issue. In testing, I loved the dish so much that I’ve been playing with variations at home ever since: for dessert, even for breakfast. It’s as easy to make as […]
Boylston Street is one of Boston’s main thoroughfares, the final leg of the Boston Marathon and home to the Boston Public Library. Its name pays honor to Dr. Zabdiel Boylston, who braved the threat of mob violence in 1721 in order to get Bostonians inoculated against smallpox. In doing so, he introduced the lifesaving technique […]
Superbowl 47 is February 3, which means the annual festival of chips and dips is nigh upon us. This Crab Farcie Dip recipe, which will appear in the expanded hardcover edition of our Yankee’s Lost & Vintage Recipes cookbook this June, is my idea of a perfect dip: creamy and warm, with a crunchy breadcrumb […]
On any given day, Beacon Hill’s brick sidewalks are dotted with camera-toting tourists. It is one of the oldest and most historic neighborhoods in the city, home to the gold-domed State Capital and one soon-to-be Secretary of State, and it’s a must-see on any travel itinerary. For some Bostonians, the Hill is almost too perfect, […]
I have a new favorite Christmas cookie, a sweet little biscuit flavored with lemon and caraway seeds and finished with a lemon glaze. Even better, the recipe takes us way back to the very beginning of American cooking. In fact, it has its roots in the first cookbook ever published here. The First Christmas “Cookey“Delivered […]
Cake stands are adorable and useful (especially during Christmas cookie season), but tough to collect. They cay be pricey, especially the vintage ones, and they take up a lot of room in a china cabinet. So I’ve come up with a solution to satisfy my cake stand fetish without overwhelming my budget or storage capacity. […]
The Providence metro area, epicenter of Little Rhody, has the greatest number of doughnut shops per capita in America. That’s a lot of cruller fans, for sure, but it’s also a lot of competition. And yet Allie’s Donuts–a low-slung red-and-white cottage on the side of Route 2 in North Kingstown–has managed to survive the Dunkin’ […]
Greek crescent cookies (kourabiedes) are a variation of Christmas shortbread cookies made with nuts and coated in powdered sugar: Russian tea cakes, Mexican wedding cookies, pecan puffs, and snowballs. There are many names for the family of Christmas shortbread cookies made with nuts and coated in powdered sugar: Russian tea cakes, Mexican wedding cookies. In […]
Community-supported fisheries bring the freshest winter seafood straight from the ocean to your table–and deliver hope to a beleaguered New England industry.
In honor of Cider Days, I take a look at some of the great new hard ciders being made in New England from the makers Bantam, Carr’s, Eden, Pup’s, and Still River. It’s Cider Days time again! I’ve written about this fantastic festival in Western Massachusetts before, and I’m thrilled to be going back again. […]
Now that my 4-year-old son is old enough to have an opinion about his bedroom, decorating it has progressed at a much slower pace. How do you make a room look cute and uncluttered when your child has tastes that don’t match your perfect theme? For now, we’ve landed on a mostly-space-and-rockets motif. The toys […]
