A homesteading family creates a world unto itself in northern Vermont. First in a year-long series.
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Susan Cole Kelly is a published photographer and author. She started her avocation as a New England stock photographer while working in an IT career in Boston. Since taking early retirement she has been able to devote more time to photography, and now travels throughout the region taking photos which are used by publishers of […]
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The 5 Best Breweries in New England
What are the best breweries in New England? We asked beer, food & football expert Kerry J. Byrne to name the ones worth seeking out (and sampling!). New England’s beer culture is as rich and robust as a dark, toasty stout. Our region boasts more than 100 breweries, so picking the five best breweries in New […]
Welcome to “Holiday Appetizers Through the Decades,” a special series celebrating over 75 years and 9 decades of Yankee Magazine holidays and tasty party appetizers! Each post spotlights a new decade with a classic cover, seasonal advice from the pages of Yankee, and one special party-pleasing holiday appetizer recipe for you to try. Yankee Magazine […]
Think of New England food and a few key ingredients will come to mind: corn, molasses, seafood, maple syrup, blueberries. Yes, cranberries, too, but few restaurants specialize in them. And no, apples aren’t native to our shores (only crabapples). The others, often in combination, are the cornerstones of classic New England dishes such as johnnycakes […]
View the winners of the 2014 Editors’ Choice Food Awards — Confections Category. FARM MARKET COLLECTION BLACK DINAH CHOCOLATIERS Isle Au Haut & Portland, Maine Steve and Kate Shaffer began making chocolates out of their home kitchen on Isle au Haut in 2007. Soon, they expanded to their barn. This year, demand for their truffles […]
View the winners of the 2014 Editors’ Choice Food Awards — Sauces Category. PESTO VEGETABALL’S FARM Claremont, New Hampshire Darlene Ball makes this fragrant, flavorful pesto with fresh basil (sourced locally in season), Parmesan and Romano cheeses, pine nuts, garlic, and a secret ingredient: butter. It tastes so incredible we can’t help but wonder why […]
View the winners of the 2014 Editors’ Choice Food Awards — Jams & Preserves Category. MARMALADE BLAKE HILL PRESERVES Grafton, Vermont Vicky Allard is a third-generation preserve maker from Hampshire, England. When she and husband Joe Hanglin purchased Blake Hill Farm in 2004, they found a bumper crop of wild blackberry and raspberry bushes growing […]
This Maine foliage drive zips through back-roads Maine from Whitefield to Wiscasset. You may just want to stay forever.
They appear the same time as the chicory blooms by the roadside: signs for Brown’s Beautiful Blueberries. They’re tiny picket signs, hand-painted with an emblem of the fruit and an arrow -– this is how so many pickers find their way over to Arnold Brown’s back hillside. This morning I packed some pails into the […]
Take advantage of the warm weather and cook up a menu of our favorite al fresco foods for a summer picnic. Plus, a guide to some of our favorite picnicking spots around New England.
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In Heaven | Mary’s Farm
A week at Mary’s Farm could put you in another frame of mind. In this isolated place, the woes of the rest of the world sometimes seem very far away, quite imaginary. But I have an apartment in the downstairs of this house that I rent out in the summertime. Guests come from all over–California, […]