Yankee Magazine Senior Editor Amy Traverso shares how she and her husband combine religion and tradition at the holidays.
Amy Traverso
Over the last few months, both Aimee Seavey and I have blogged about our work testing recipes for an upcoming Yankee cookbook. And now that project is done and printed and for sale on our site! We have had so much fun on this project, combing through our archives to find recipes that sounded delicious […]
Cooking Advice
Yankee’s Best Lost and Vintage Recipes
Recipes tell a story. Not in the familiar sense–there are no plot points in the ingredients list, no surprise endings in the method (except, maybe, when it comes to soufflés). But if you step back and look at recipes over time and as a whole, they tell a rich story about how people lived: how, […]
Christmas at Christine Chitnis’s house means a dazzling display of colorful handmade crafts and vintage decorations.
Cooking Advice
Traditional Thanksgiving Recipes with a Twist
Get recipes for all the familiar Thanksgiving standards with brighter flavors and unexpected ingredients, plus the best turkey you’ve ever had.
This recipe for Maids of Honor Tarts is one I discovered in the course of my research for Yankee Magazine‘s Lost and Vintage Recipes cookbook, though it didn’t make it into this book. But it’s wonderful and well worth a try. According to British cooking maven Delia Smith, these tarts are rumored to have originated at Richmond […]
Delicious, moist Spiced Apple Cupcakes with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting that are full of apple flavor.
New England
The Encyclopedia of Fall: V Is for Vineyard
Today, you’ll find vineyards all over New England. Take a drive along the southern coasts of Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut in October and, assuming the hard frosts haven’t hit too early, you’ll see glorious golden foliage blanketing the long, straight rows of vines.
New England
Scott Farm
Landmark Trust USA manages these 626 pristine acres in southern Vermont, where a team of orchardists tends some 90 varieties of low-spray heirloom and unusual apples. This beautiful property served as the location for the orchard scenes in The Cider House Rules. There’s a farm stand, plus classes on pruning and grafting, pie baking, and […]
New England
Nashoba Valley Winery
In the heart of America’s first fruit bowl, this beautiful winery and restaurant is also home to a spectacular antique-apple orchard stocked with rare finds, such as ‘Pink Pearl’, ‘Ashmead’s Kernel’, and ‘Esopus Spitzenberg’–nearly 100 in all; call ahead to make an appointment. Tack a wine tasting and dinner onto your day and you have […]
New England
Poverty Lane Orchards
Steve Wood and Louisa Spencer operate two businesses on their land in west-central New Hampshire: Poverty Lane Orchards, where they grow dozens of antique and unusual apple varieties, and Farnum Hill Ciders, where they make complex ciders from the aforementioned apples. Both are worth exploring for their nuance and quality. 98 Poverty Lane, Lebanon, NH. […]
New Hampshire
Gould Hill Farm
Possibly the most beautiful orchard view in New England, with vistas as far as the White Mountains. When you turn your attention back to the trees, you’ll find 80-plus apple cultivars tended by owners Tim and Amy Bassett. One variety especially worth noting: ‘Hampshire’, a tree that sprang up from seed on this very farm […]