New England is the birthplace of many notable inventions, but these three in particular are prized for their contributions to parties everywhere.
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Magazine
Dear Yankee | February 2016
Our favorite recent letters, Facebook posts, Instagram comments, and tweets. Revolutionary Tea icon-envelope I read your article about the Boston Tea Party tea chest (November/December, p. 52) and thought you’d enjoy this absolutely true story. A few years ago my parents went to England, and my mother went gift shopping at Fortnum & Mason’s. The […]
Lauren Stein is a Boston-based journalist and author whose charming new book, Fresh Made Simple (Storey Publishing: 2015), offers bright, fun flavors combined in recipes that are so accessible and easy to make, they’re not even written as traditional recipes. Instead, Stein’s collaborator, illustrator Katie Eberts, turns them into lively illustrations, presenting all the information […]
New England
Best Diners in New England
New England is the birthplace of the American diner. It’s also where diners and diner cuisine have developed most fully over the years. From the lunch wagons of 1870s Providence, Rhode Island, to the gleaming steel-and-glass palaces of today, New England diners have long served as community gathering places, offering comfort food at affordable prices […]
271 estimated travel time in minutes between Boston and Montreal if the high-speed New England rail corridor is ever built. Driving between the two cities, under ideal conditions, takes about 320 minutes. 5,000 cars caught on camera running red lights during a six-month-long study in 2005 in Auburn and Lewiston, Maine. Not surprisingly, the two […]
Cooking Advice
Food for Thought
See also Cooking 101. There are probably as many ways to get a culinary education as there are professional chefs. If culinary school seems a bit narrow in its focus, you may want to check out some of the liberal-arts and career colleges in New England that offer culinary programs along with English, math, and […]
January 1 1904. L Street Brownies take their first plunge into the frigid waters of South Boston’s Dorchester Bay, beginning a tradition that still continues. January 3 1920. Boston Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sells Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees. January 5 1643. First divorce granted in the American Colonies. January 6 1994. […]
History
The Yankee Datebook
January 1 1904. L Street Brownies take their first plunge into the frigid waters of South Boston’s Dorchester Bay, beginning a tradition that still continues. January 2 Women ski and ride Okemo Mountain in Ludlow, Vermont, all day for just $39. Also Jan. 9, 16, and 30. 800-786-5366, 802-228-4041; okemo.com January 3 1920. Boston Red […]
Massachusetts
A Perfect Weekend In (Greater) Boston
Can you get the full Boston experience in one weekend? Probably not. But that’s okay. It just means you’ll have to make a return visit.
Victoria Blewer left New York City in 1986 to devote herself full time to fine art photography in the quiet hills of Vermont. Her photographs are shot with black and white film — many with infrared black and white film, printed on a porous photographic paper, and then toned for color and longevity. Her technique […]
Can oysters help New England’s coast survive climate change? One Billion Oysters The only place most of us ever see an oyster is on ice. It’s an expensive delicacy, a sensuous mouthful associated with the boudoir by way of the belly. If you live near the seacoast, your knowledge might extend to the names of […]
Travel
Christmas Reflections
Verner Reed’s photographs preserve moments large and small of how New Englanders lived 60 years ago. When Verner Reed (1923–2006) came upon this group of children gazing into the window of a toy store along Boston’s Washington Street at Christmas in 1955, he captured, unmistakably, a little girl’s wonder and ever-hopeful yearning. He titled it […]