Main Dishes

Cooking the Perfect Roast Chicken

Marjorie Druker, developer of the original recipes for Boston Chicken, says you can make any chicken recipe if you can make a great roast chicken.

Food

The Yankee Holiday Cookbook

Our seasonal recipes from our Yankee Holiday Cookbook will have you eating deliciously (and New Englandy) from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Eve. No other time of year is as festive or as rich in food traditions as November and December, from the turkey and sweet potatoes at Thanksgiving to the cookies and roasts that anchor […]

Magazine

2014 Yankee Magazine’s Editors’ Choice Food Awards

Photo/Art by Heath Robbins Our guide to the best artisanal cheeses, chocolates, jams, cookies, bacon, and other worthy edibles in New England. This year marks our second annual food awards, which means that once again, we’ve been scouring New England’s groceries and markets to find the best locally made cheeses, jams, chocolates, sauces–and even salt!–for […]

Food

Baked Goods | 2014 Editors’ Choice Food Awards

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, […]

Food

Colonial Baking at Plimoth Plantation

  There’s a new exhibit at Plimoth Plantation, a working bakery that will bring early American baking traditions to life. Located in the newly renovated Craft Center, the bakery (named the Plimoth Bread Company) is ramping up to offer fresh breads and pastries for purchase, tastings, workshops and classes.     Plimoth has always had […]

History

Constant Comment

Since 1945, the Bigelow Tea Company has been supplying New England and beyond with quality teas, and none is more popular than the brand’s signature blend, Constant Comment. It was invented by Ruth Campbell Bigelow in the kitchen of her New York City brownstone in 1945. Unhappy with the teas available on the market at […]

How To

Cookie Portraits | Edible Art

Here is a craft project that is absolutely foolish (in a good way) and will bring a smile to anyone who receives it. It’s a cookie portrait — a silhouette portrait turned into cookie art! For the purposes of this blog I chose to make an Elvis portrait because he is easily recognized by a […]

Yankee

Bud | A Vermont Dog

Bud was a Vermont dog, a purebred malamute. He lived in and about Adamant, a village bounded by mountains and set in a curving bowl of fields, woods, marshes, and ponds. Bud was brought to Adamant by Louis Porter, a ten-year-old boy, during the summer of 1986, but in September of that year, when Lou […]

Food

Berry-Fig Cream Parfaits

  Summer is approaching peak bounty here in New England. Blueberries, raspberries, figs, peaches are in every market. They looked so gorgeous at the store today that I created this simple parfait dessert to show them off. The recipe is easier than it might look: You make a quick, no-fail pastry cream on the stove […]

Breakfast & Brunch

Shirred Eggs | Recipe with a History

Julia Child told viewers of Boston’s public-television program The French Chef that “eggs can be your best friend,” and she especially loved the sophistication of shirred eggs.

Food

Maxwell’s Strawberry Farm | Best Cook

Family ties — and recipes — are strong in the household of Maxwell’s Strawberry Farm in Cape Elizabeth, a sixth-generation Maine berry farm. Last year, Lois Bam­ford entered her mom’s recipe for Scandinav­ian almond cake in a contest in Good Housekeeping magazine—and she won! “I wanted to do it as a surprise for Mom,” she […]

Vermont

Best Dining in Vermont | 2014 Editors’ Choice Awards

Hungry? The Green Mountain State offers plenty of restaurant options for hungry residents and visitors alike. Here are our picks for the best food & dining in Vermont for 2014. BEST HOMEMADE ICE CREAM: LU•LU, Bristol Where else but in Vermont can you get artisanal ice cream made with yolks from eggs laid on the […]

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