This year marks Yankee‘s 80th anniversary. Eighty years! Not bad for an independent , family-owned publishing company (actually, the reason we’ve survived this long probably has everything to do with not having been swallowed up by a New York-based media conglomerate). We’re planning a full anniversary issue in September and for that reason, I’ve been […]
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Every cook needs a great coffee cake recipe for those lazy Sundays or potluck brunches or bake sales. This cardamom coffee cake is one of my favorites. It’s a classic crumb cake, topped with a generous sprinkle of streusel and perfumed with cardamom, which, in my view, is an completely underused spice. Click here for […]
Desserts
How to Make Coconut Pound Cake
Dense and sweet with big coconut flavor, this Coconut Pound Cake is one of our favorite spring cakes — it’s perfect for Easter and Mother’s Day!
Follow in Denise Eckhardt’s footsteps to make someone very happy on a special holiday or as a Valentine’s Day surprise. Thirty-seven years ago, when Denise Eckhardt was pregnant with her first child, a friend brought her a box of Serenade Chocolates, a locally cherished brand made by a beloved chocolatier in Brookline, Massachusetts. The box […]
How Boston cream pie — a French-inspired cake — became New England’s favorite pie. Well, sort of …
Flavor, fragrance, and memory turn a Christmas treat into a timeless tradition. It seems as though at the exact moment when the last leaf falls each year, the gingerbread appears. From the bakery to the coffee shop to the drugstore (gingerbread-flavored lip balm, anyone?), this sweet-and-spicy combination of ginger and molasses, preferably in traditional cake […]
Linda Tenney’s holiday feasts give guests a culinary tour of her ancestral homeland. Linda Wisz Tenney is a tour de force in the town of Antrim, New Hampshire, where she has lived with her husband, Eric, since they married in 1966. Together, and with their extended family, they run Tenney Farm, a farm stand that […]
View the winners of the 2014 Editors’ Choice Food Awards — Baked Goods. MACARONS MOOCHIE’S MACARONS Derry, New Hampshire Francophiles, rejoice! After a futile search for authentic macarons, the popular French meringue-based cookies, Nina DiBona Pauk decided to get out her mixer and make her own. When the results proved too tasty to stay a secret, […]
Seven years after her death, Tasha Tudor is still as enigmatic, fascinating, and entertaining as she was in life. The famed illustrator’s family is determined to continue her legacy.
What makes Grape-Nuts Pudding — a New England comfort-food classic — truly great? The secret’s in the cereal.
Ezekiel Goodband of Scott Farm in Dummerston, Vermont, thinks that biting into a fresh apple should be a transcendent experience, and he’s devoted his life to giving others that pleasure.
One of Vermont’s best hidden gems is Perennial Pleasures, an English tea garden in the Northeast Kingdom. There’s a certain subset of New Englander whose affection for Old England is almost counter-revolutionary. By osmosis or birth, they inherit a deferential Anglophilia that sets the U.K. as the standard for All Good Things and inspires a […]