The Yankee Holiday Cookbook

Our seasonal recipes from our Yankee Holiday Cookbook will have you eating deliciously (and New Englandy) from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Eve.

No other time of year is as festive or as rich in food traditions as November and December, from the turkey and sweet potatoes at Thanksgiving to the cookies and roasts that anchor the Christmas table. We wanted to bring you the flavors you crave: chocolate and spice, pumpkin and sage, citrus and cranberry. Our menu had to feature distinctly New England dishes, calling on traditional fare such as brown bread and fruit-studded Christmas cakes. But we also wanted to tailor each one to appeal to modern sensibilities (and time restrictions). And so we bring you 20 fresh-but-familiar recipes from our kitchen, each a reason to celebrate the season.

Amy Traverso

Amy Traverso is the senior food editor at Yankee and cohost of the public television series Weekends with Yankee, a coproduction with GBH. Previously, she was food editor at Boston magazine and an associate food editor at Sunset magazine. Her work has also been published in The Boston Globe, Saveur, and Travel & Leisure, and she has appeared on Hallmark Home & Family, The Martha Stewart Show, Throwdown with Bobby Flay, and Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares. Amy is the author of The Apple Lover’s Cookbook, which was a finalist for the Julia Child Award for best first-time author and won an IACP Cookbook Award in the “American” category.

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