Tracy Medeiros loves farmers and local food. She’s written two books about the homegrown delights of her adopted state of Vermont—Dishing up Vermont and The Vermont Farm Table Cookbook. And now, with co-author Christy Colasurdo, she is exploring the local cuisine of Connecticut with The Connecticut Farm Table Cookbook (Countryman Press, 2015). If your only […]
Food
We love peanut butter in New England, and Teddie All Natural Peanut Butter has been the local favorite for nearly a century. Teddie got its start in the 1920s, when Armenian immigrant Michael Hintlian (along with his siblings and cousins) settled in the Boston area and began The Leavitt Corporation, producing and distributing candies and mixed […]
Needhams (sometimes called just “potato candy”) are a dark-chocolate-covered coconut-cream candy. The Maine ingredient might surprise you.
Food
Hollandaise Sauce
Some New England-born confections are well known to the point of icon status (think Boston Cream Pie or Necco Wafers), but others, for whatever reason, have grown — like kids that went away to college and never came back home — to the point where they’ve lost much of their original New England affiliation. One prime example […]
Breads
Portuguese Sweet Bread
Rich and sweet, this “Massa Suvada,” or Portuguese Sweet Bread, is traditional Portuguese Easter recipe, with the eggs symbolizing new life.
Food
Egg Salad Sandwich
Thinly sliced sweet potatoes are layered with thinly sliced shallots and a sweet maple butter. Sweet Potato Gratin is an ideal dish to serve with any holiday meal.
This elegant soup is inspired by a classic Chinese dish, shrimp and snow peas, but the preparation will please any frugal New Englander. Every ingredient is fully consumed and nothing is wasted. You make a broth with shrimp and some aromatics like leek, lemon, garlic, and carrot, then put those ingredients back in the soup […]
