Needhams (sometimes called just “potato candy”) are a dark-chocolate-covered coconut-cream candy. The Maine ingredient might surprise you.
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Soon after my father died, my mother became a caterer. She designed a business card with her name, “Adele,” written in bold tangerine cursive letters against a bright yellow background. At the bottom of the card were the words “Party Fair.” In truth, she did not cater very many parties. She no longer lived in […]
Hungry? The Ocean State offers plenty of restaurant options for hungry residents and visitors alike. Here are our picks for the best food & dining in Rhode Island for 2015. Best Full All-Day Breakfast Corner Café, Newport Imagine: a breakfast sandwich so enormous you can’t hoist it, even though it’s cut in half. Or Portuguese […]
Hungry? The Granite State offers plenty of restaurant options for hungry residents and visitors alike. Here are our picks for the best food & dining in New Hampshire for 2015. Best Burger Tuckaway Tavern & Butchery, Raymond The burgers are crafted of Angus beef, ground fresh each day—but there’s no skimping on BBQ, pork, bacon, bison, […]
Looking to rest your head in the Green Mountain State? We’ve got you covered! Check out our picks for the best lodging in Vermont for 2015. Best Mountain Vistas Taraden, North Bennington Nestled on 20 acres overlooking the Taconic Range and Green Mountains, Taradan offers three spacious suites with private baths, including one in a […]
History
Fluffernutters
Made with peanut butter and Marshmallow Fluff on white bread, the Fluffernutter sandwich is a New England classic with a history as long as it is sweet.
Some New England-born confections are well known to the point of icon status (think Boston Cream Pie or Necco Wafers), but others, for whatever reason, have grown — like kids that went away to college and never came back home — to the point where they’ve lost much of their original New England affiliation. One prime example […]
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 […]
Curious about historic paint colors? Learn more about period paint colors in New England, from Colonial paint colors to Victorian paint colors.
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 […]
Cooking Advice
How to Make Thick & Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
I want to make thick & chewy chocolate chip cookies , not ones that are thin and crisp. I use a modified Toll House cookie recipe and still use butter (not honey), yet I can’t get the cookies to be as thick as those I remember my grandmother making. They seem kind of runny, […]
The Blizzard of 1888 dumped the greatest amount of snow ever to have fallen in the United States in one storm. And author Judd Caplovich discovered more about it than anyone who lived through it.