fiddleheads

Senior food editor Amy Traverso shares her list of the best places to eat on the Cape, from beachfront dining to the perfect cup of coffee.

For a child of the Maine wilderness, the humble fiddlehead nourishes memories and a sense of place.

Make the most of fiddleheads, spring’s most ephemeral vegetable, in this simple sautéed fiddleheads recipe.

Local innkeepers invite you to explore a place of rich history, picturesque small towns, and one big, beautiful mountain.

Local restaurants are ready to take your order — and there’s no better place than Keene, the regional dining hub, to sample all the possibilities.

This Maine foliage drive zips through back-roads Maine from Whitefield to Wiscasset. You may just want to stay forever.

Maine Foliage Drive Distance: about 40 miles round trip Sometimes those long lines at Red’s Eats, that colorful little roadside seafood shack in downtown Wiscasset, can stretch almost to the Sheepscot River bridge. That’s why the Midcoast town of Wis­casset is the perfect place to detour off the busy road and onto what your dad […]

Each April, spring foragers hunt the many varieties of New England wild edibles with delicious results. There’s something magical about wild food: It draws us closer to the earth—and it’s delicious. Maybe it’s easy to romanticize this ease with nature, but it is romantic. Our great winter hibernation rumbles to its end in the first real warming days […]

White-steepled churches, country stores, black-shuttered white clapboard houses, and bobbing boats provide the backdrop to the prettiest towns in New England.

The occasion was the 150th anniversary of Thoreau’s The Maine Woods—a literary milestone that would be marked by an adventure into “Thoreau’s Maine.”

The village of Hancock, New Hampshire, is certainly resplendent in autumn, and spring and summer show off the lush green of the common, and the full canopy of the many mature trees.  A fresh coating of snow gives the place a Currier & Ives vibe in winter. But here in early November, though the leaves […]

This Maine foliage drive zips through back-roads Maine from Whitefield to Wiscasset. You may just want to stay forever.