Take to the streets on these culinary walking tours, and discover the heart of New England’s food scene.
Food
Which is more beautiful: the full bloom of spring or the peak of fall? If you’re partial to the former, you’re in your element right now—and a tasty cocktail known as the May Flowers Fizz is a terrific way to celebrate blossom season.
Breakfast & Brunch
Blueberry Pancakes with Cardamom Sugar
These blueberry pancakes are light and moist, rich with plump berries, and finished with a hint of fragrant cardamom.
Desserts
How to Make Maple Walnut Ice Cream
Maple walnut ice cream is a New England favorite. Can’t find any or prefer homemade? Here’s how to make maple walnut ice cream at home.
Rich and buttery like shortbread, these chocolate-filled walnut sandwich cookies are both delicious and very easy to make. A reader favorite from the Yankee recipe archives.
Sweet and spicy with a subtle “mystery ingredient,” Tomato Soup Cake is a retro classic worth remembering.
A vintage recipe worth revisiting, Shredded Wheat Bread pairs crumbled cereal with molasses for a tender, sweet loaf that’s perfect for toasting.
This recipe is very flexible. You can vary the vegetables, make ahead and freeze, or scale up from individual servings to one big pot pie.
Maple syrup gives this easy, tangy coleslaw with maple-cider dressing recipe a slightly sweet lift.
Beverages
May Flowers Fizz
This refreshing gin cocktail was inspired by a Weekends with Yankee visit to Tamworth Distilling at the southern edge of the White Mountains. Fragrant with aromas of ginger, lime, and rose, it’s a terrific way to celebrate blossom season.
Condiments
Dune Brothers Homemade Tartar Sauce
This homemade tartar sauce from Dune Brother in Providence, Rhode Island, pairs perfectly with Lemony Beer-Battered Fish and Herbed Coleslaw.
Desserts
Buttermilk Pie
The rural Yankee housewife accumulated many recipes calling for buttermilk. Here, it lends unique flavor to a custard like buttermilk pie.