It’s a busy morning here at New England is Delicious headquarters. I’m getting ready to head up to Gould Hill Farm to shoot a segment for New Hampshire Chronicle, which is a big treat. The subject is, naturally, apples and will touch on Yankee’s September issue, which includes an excerpt from my apple cookbook. It’s […]
Amy Traverso
After a lifetime of annual one- or two-week stays on Cape Cod every summer, we decided to mix things up and rent a cottage on Lake Champlain this year. Life has been so busy these past few months that I arrived with a limited knowledge and no expectations, so imagine my delight when I realized […]
Amy Traverso, Yankee lifestyle editor and author of The Apple Lover’s Cookbook picks her five favorite native New England apple varieties. Baldwin Apple Category: Firm-sweet Best use: I like to combine Baldwins with firm-tart apples in old-fashioned desserts like pies, crisps, and pandowdies. Origin: Discovered in 1740 on the farm of John Ball in Wilmington, […]
Few New England seasons are sweeter than the apple harvest. Celebrate with favorite apple recipes like apple pie and homemade cider doughnuts.
An unfinished farmhouse inspires expat empty-nesters to reinvent themselves in the Green Mountains.
Several weeks ago, I received an email from Keith Davis, a Maine entrepreneur who has devoted the past few years to reviving a beloved Maine treat called the Harbor Bar. Harbor Bars are chocolate-dipped ice cream sandwiches filled with either vanilla or mint ice cream. They were first created in the late 1970s as a […]
Glory be, it’s ice cream season. July is, after all, national ice cream month. Of course, we New Englanders also consume a healthy portion of the stuff in the dead of winter, but this wilting weather is the perfect excuse to indulge. Several years ago, during my first tour as Yankee’s food editor, I developed […]
Food
A Seaside Feast
I love being a food and home editor and I love working for Yankee. But recently, I had a “I really, really love my job!” moment when I was invited down to South Kingstown, RI, for a dinner at chef William Kovel’s family house by the beach. Kovel has been one of my favorite chefs […]
Food
Patriotic Pie
The food riches of summer are almost overwhelming. The produce at the markets, the food festivals, the pick-your-own bounty, the holiday barbecues. We make hay while the sun shines and I’m trying to grab as much of it as I can. So I’ll start with a recipe—a perfect pie for the Fourth of July holiday. […]
Food
The Trifecta
This past Saturday, I faced a delicious dilemma: When you’ve had a perfect breakfast and lunch, where do you go for dinner? It started at Sofra, Ana Sortun and Maura Kilpatrick’s incredible bakery in Cambridge, MA. My parents were in town to celebrate Father’s Day, so we treated them to a breakfast of glazed orange […]
Rhode Island
New England’s Best Ice Cream | Homegrown
The secret to New England’s best ice cream is a rich custard base made with the freshest ingredients. My first taste of Susanna’s Ice Cream happened on a chilly March day at a farmers’ market in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. Stuffed with pastries and fixated on the piles of oysters and root vegetables, I almost […]
Here’s the view from my “office” today. We’re doing a three-day photo shoot for the new Yankee Favorites cookbook (see last year’s edition), due out in mid-October, and the setting is the beautiful studio of photographer Heath Robbins. This is, hands-down, the nicest studio I’ve ever worked in—5000 square feet of well-lit studio, office, kitchen, and comfortable […]