Magazine

How to Carry Your Wife | Ask the Expert

Giving new meaning to “spousal support,” Elliot and Giana Storey share their secrets for winning a sports competition like no other.

Side Dishes

Favorite Sweet Potato Recipes

From traditional pies and casseroles to more offbeat dishes, these sweet potato recipes showcase a root vegetable with big flavor and nutritional punch.

Breakfast & Brunch

Strawberry-Rhubarb Coffee Cake | Cooking with Yankee

This delicious recipe dates back nearly 40 years, to the grandmother of Amy Traverso, Yankee’s senior food editor. Tender, sweet-tart, and moist (it’s made, midcentury-style, with vegetable oil instead of butter), the cake packs just the right sweet punch with a crunchy sugar topping. 

History

Grits Aren’t a Southern Invention

Do You Think Grits Are a Southern Invention? Well, not really. Fact is, they originated in New England… When most people think of New England food, they think of lobsters, clam chowder, Boston baked beans, scrod, Indian pudding, cranberries, and apple pie. (Yes, we claim apple pie, too.) But how many of us today have […]

Vermont

Barnard General Store | Local Flavor

How one Vermont hamlet saved the heart of its community with a new General Store—and got the world’s best pancakes in the bargain.

Cooking Advice

The Readable Feast

Up-and-coming literary festival The Readable Feast, scheduled for June 23 in Boston, celebrates the best food writing and cookbooks around.

New England

8 Great New England Summer Drives

From the jagged shoreline of Maine to the verdant farmland of Vermont, these eight great New England jaunts give you the perfect excuse to plan the perfect summer road trip.

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