For one young woman dreaming of her future, New England’s iconic Jordan Marsh department stores offered a taste of elegance and sophistication.
Magazine
blueberry
Boston’s best bakery for sweets doesn’t serve a single blueberry muffin. Instead, the treats lining Sofra’s white-marble counter are inspired by the flavors of the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East: Persian spiced doughnuts, Egyptian bread pudding, pistachio olive-oil cake. The pastries look so decadent and tantalizingly come-hither that most patrons don’t even bother parsing the […]
New England
New England’s Best Breakfasts
A delicious, if daunting, challenge: Find the best start-the-day-right meals in New England. Here are the best breakfasts in New England!
Main Dishes
Savory Pies | The Ultimate Comfort Food
These savory pies are homey, but hardly humble. We think they’re the ultimate winter comfort food.
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.
Our first question to Mark and Betty Garrison, owners of Rocky Point Blueberry Farm in Warwick, Rhode Island, was: “What inspired you to turn this beautiful residential property into a farm?” We were having coffee in the living room of the three-bedroom (plus “in-law apartment”) house designed by Mark and built in 1984, while admiring […]
In a region where seasonal work off the land is a staple of life, evergreens yield hundreds of thousands of holiday decorations.
When my husband and I got married, there was one thing we were certain about: We didn’t want a traditional wedding reception. Arrive in a limo? Not our thing. Play the garter game? No way! Force the thirtysomething single ladies to line up to catch — and possibly destroy — my bouquet? Not a chance! […]
Desserts
Homemade Blueberry Pie
New England in August is awash in blueberries, and you haven’t tasted blueberry pie until you’ve eaten one homemade with fresh, local fruit. I was fortunate enough to get my hands on an authentic classic Blueberry Pie recipe for inspiration, thanks to the new book Northern Hospitality: Cooking by the Book in New England by Keith […]
Gardens
Farmers’ Markets
There’s something special about purchasing the food that nourishes and sustains our bodies and souls directly from the growers who have carefully coaxed it from the earth. Every person who works closely with the earth invests not only their own time and energy but also a bit of themselves into what they grow—somehow making the […]
Food
The Trifecta
This past Saturday, I faced a delicious dilemma: When you’ve had a perfect breakfast and lunch, where do you go for dinner? It started at Sofra, Ana Sortun and Maura Kilpatrick’s incredible bakery in Cambridge, MA. My parents were in town to celebrate Father’s Day, so we treated them to a breakfast of glazed orange […]
I’m haunted by a pickle. The kitchen shelves glimmer with jars of homemade preserves after a summer’s worth of gardening, harvesting, and putting up. Clove-scented beets glow deep garnet, and the cauliflower sparkles crystalline, bejeweled with tiny bright-red–and lethally hot–Thai peppers. Zucchini pickles stack up right next to the oven-roasted tomato sauce. Strawberry and wild-blueberry […]