Amy Traverso
I haven’t written a cooking-oriented post for weeks. I have been cooking, but it it has been of the “quickly-as-possible-so-we-can-get-back-outside-and-enjoy-the-fleeting-summer” sort. Fresh tomato salads, grilled sausages, hamburgers, etc. One quick tip: Try using rice vinegar and shallots in your next tomato salad. The milder acidity is a great compliment to the sweet, ripe fruit […]
New Hampshire
A Late Summer Visit to Kimball’s
New Hampshire’s Monadnock region, where Yankee‘s offices are located, has an impressive diversity of restaurants, especially considering that it remains a relatively undiscovered vacation destination. Restaurants like Pearl Oyster Bar, Waterhouse, Harlow’s Pub, and the Harrisville General Store make the region a very good place to eat. And come summer, I can’t wait to get […]
Magazine
A Day at the SoWa Market
Every Sunday from May through October, the open-air SoWa Market in Boston’s South End entices with food, craft, and vintage market finds – plus food trucks!
One of my favorite ways to promote my apple cookbook is by doing demos at farmers markets around New England. And now that fresh early summer apples like Paula Red and Lodi are in season, I’ll be visiting a lot of them in the coming months. Today I was at the Kendall Square market in […]
How To
Improv Sewing
Every so often, we receive cookbooks and crafting books to review, and it’s always a good day in the office when that happens. One book in particular caught my eye: Improv Sewing by Nicole Blum and Debra Immergut. I’m an enthusiastic but not terribly skilled sewer and the book was right up my alley, showing […]
With all the warm weather we’ve been having this week, I’m craving grilled food and cool salads. How about you? This hearty quinoa salad was this week’s improvisation, and it was such a hit that I had to write it down and share it with you. Quinoa, as you probably know, is a popular alternative […]
Magazine
Favorite Candy Stores of New England
We’ve been visiting a lot of New England resort towns this summer, which means we’ve also been to a lot of seafood shacks, bookstores, beachy home decor boutiques, and candy shops. And the candy shops have been the most thrilling because they’re all about sweetness and fantasy. Even if you’re not a huge fan of […]
Condiments
Perfect Hot Fudge Recipe
A quick, no-fail, perfect hot fudge recipe, from the archives of Yankee Magazine. It’s better than anything you can buy in the store. Usually when you see a headline like this one, the words “This Story Will Teach You How to…” are implied at the front. But I encourage you to take this headline as […]
Gardens
Foraging for Beach Plums
For chef Jason Bond, foraging for beach plums is just another day at the beach…
We’re nearing the final stages of putting together the new Yankee cookbook (due out in October), and I’m having a hard time letting go. Looking through our archives, I keep discovering even more recipes to test and add to the collection, but we’ll soon be in the studio with Heath Robbins and Catrine Kelty making […]
I think this is the last time I can mention Twin Elm Farm—an excellent antique co-op in Peterborough, New Hamsphire, near Yankee’s offices—for at least a while. I’ve written about my finds from this place so many times that you might think that I’m getting kickbacks. I promise I have no financial interest in the […]