The Ocean State offers plenty of restaurant options for hungry residents and visitors. Read our picks for the best food & dining in Rhode Island. BEST MEXICAN FOOD EL RANCHO GRANDE, Providence Maria Meza’s chicken mole has brought grown men to their knees, and legend has it that her menudo has remedied many a hangover. […]
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The Granite State has plenty to offer in the Great Outdoors. Read our picks for the best outdoor attractions in New Hampshire for 2013. BEST WATERFALL PARK BABY FLUME & HUNTINGTON CASCADES, Dixville Get two waterfalls almost in one with the Baby Flume, just east of The Balsams resort, and Huntington Cascades across the street. […]
There’s a lot to see in do in the Pine Tree State, but some activities really stand the test of time. Read our picks for the best classic attractions in Maine. BEST TRADITIONAL MAINE INN THE BLUE HILL INN, Blue Hill Conjure an image of the perfect inn, and likely it resembles this Federal-style gem decorated […]
Cooking Advice
The Yankee Kitchen: Lobster Pie
Yankee Magazine Lifestyle Editor Amy Traverso shows you how to cook a lobster pie. This is a really rich tasty New England treat! Hi. I’m Amy Traverso, Lifestyle Editor at Yankee Magazine, and welcome to The Yankee Kitchen. Today I’m making lobster pie, a classic New England dish, lobster in a creamy sauce. It couldn’t […]
Cooking Advice
The Yankee Kitchen: Warm Lobster Rolls
Yankee Magazine’s Lifestyle Editor Amy Traverso makes homemade Lobster rolls. Heaven in a hot dog bun! Hi I’m Amy Traverso, Lifestyle editor at Yankee Magazine and welcome to the Yankee Kitchen. Today we are going to be making Lobster rolls. Now these are a slightly more gourmet, fancy version of lobster rolls, and the recipe […]
Lobster shacks and a lighthouse, craggy shores and a sand beach, boat-filled harbors and postcard villages: Looping the Pemaquid Peninsula, via Routes 130 and 32, reveals it all. Begin in Damariscotta, just off U.S. Route 1; after breakfast at Chrissy’s, browse the independent specialty and antiques shops and galleries lining Main Street, including the never-to-be-missed […]
Kennebunk, Maine, is the kind of town with a gazebo on the green, friendly locals that nod hello, free downtown parking, and easy access to the beach.
Connecticut
The Sound of Spring on the Connecticut Shoreline
Time stands still in all the best places, but only for so long. As spring melts into Long Island Sound, the villages along the Connecticut shoreline stir and stretch, sloughing off winter’s crust. Midway along the coast, snow lets go of the edges of Hammonasset Beach, and before you know it, town greens up and […]
Fish & Seafood
Crab Farcie Dip
Superbowl 47 is February 3, which means the annual festival of chips and dips is nigh upon us. This Crab Farcie Dip recipe, which will appear in the expanded hardcover edition of our Yankee’s Lost & Vintage Recipes cookbook this June, is my idea of a perfect dip: creamy and warm, with a crunchy breadcrumb […]
From the best doughnuts and coffee to favorite outdoor adventures and indoor browsing to fine dining and bedtime comforts, our quintessential little village gathers everything we love about New England into one perfect place.
Cooking Advice
Yankee’s Best Lost and Vintage Recipes
Recipes tell a story. Not in the familiar sense–there are no plot points in the ingredients list, no surprise endings in the method (except, maybe, when it comes to soufflés). But if you step back and look at recipes over time and as a whole, they tell a rich story about how people lived: how, […]
New Hampshire
Finding Christmas in Portsmouth, New Hampshire
A small city by the sea, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, keeps traditional holiday spirit alive at Christmas.