We Make the Best Hot Chocolate in the World Michael Klug, head chocolatier at L. A. Burdick in Walpole, New Hampshire, on making that perfect cup: The Right Stuff A great hot chocolate begins with good-quality ingredients. Klug opts for 2% milk over whole milk. “There’s already fat in the chocolate,” he explains. “And too-high […]
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Gardens
Identify Animal Tracks
A dusting of snow reveals prints, a sign our woodland creatures are still active. Use this chart to identify animal tracks in the snow. See the other 42 reasons to love winter!
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Wovel | Shovel Snow the Easy Way
Snow Shoveling Has Never Been So Easy No, it won’t actually remove the snow for you–you still have to get out of bed for that. But the Snow Wolf (formerly the Wovel), made by the New Canaan, Connecticut, company Nootools, won’t have you reaching for the Advil the way you used to, either. In fact, […]
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Isabelle Abramson | Artisan Profile
Isabelle Abramson is a fan of serenity. That’s why the ceramics artist, who works in a studio in Boston’s South End, is house-hunting in Vermont. “I feel really good about my neighborhood in Boston, and I needed to be in a city to get started so that I could have access to people and show […]
This recipe for Pork & Apple Pie with Cheddar-Sage Crust — a sweet-and-savory stunner — was inspired by the fruit and meat pies common in British cooking.
1/15/1919 day a giant molasses tank in Boston’s North End exploded, gushing more than 2 million gallons of the stuff into city streets 35 mph: speed at which the molasses initially rolled through the North End $3K amount the DiStasio family was compensated for the death of their 10-year-old daughter, Maria 119 number of separate […]
New England
Best Cross Country Ski Trails in New England
We asked Vermont author and skier David Goodman to choose his favorite cross country ski trails in New England. Here are his top five.
Cooking Advice
Cookbook: Homemade Favorites for Every Season
Here in New England we live by the seasons. They shape our days and inform our appetites. Yankee Magazine‘s Best New England Recipes Homemade Favorites for Every Season gives readers a new way to savor the seasons, with more than 150 tried-and-true recipes for eating deliciously throughout the year.
Welcome to the December 2011 edition of Jud’s New England Journal, the rather curious monthly musings of Judson Hale, the Editor-in-Chief of Yankee Magazine, published since 1935 in Dublin, N.H. How in the World Did the Donut Develop a Hole? Really now. This is important! There are, of course, countless theories. The most widely believed […]