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View the winner of the 2013 Editors Choice Food Awards — Pickles Category. ITALIAN DILLS Grillo’s Pickles Boston, Massachusetts In 2008, Travis Grillo decided that there might be a future in his family’s 100-year-old pickle recipe, so he began selling his “Italian Dills” (made with extra garlic) out of his car, then from a customized cart […]
View the winner of the 2013 Editors Choice Food Awards — Tea Category. HIBISCUS TEA BLEND Ambrosia Chocolate & Spices Nantucket, Massachusetts Claudia Butler sells organic spices and chocolates at her adorable shop on Nantucket. Her chocolates are exotic, flavored with ingredients such as green tea, curry, and coconut. Her teas are equally good. Her “Hibiscus […]
1. Deb Bastien and Kate Saliba have a particular fondness for letterpress. Their staff includes a talented violinist, a portrait artist, and a mathematician. And in recent years, Smudge Ink has also created two lines of vibrantly designed cards whose proceeds benefit local charities: WE CAN, a Cape Cod group offering mentoring, legal counsel, and […]
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A Day At Davis Family Farm
On a recent pristine autumn day I visited Davis Family Farm in Sterling, Massachusetts, with my two-year-old son. My wife was in California on a much needed and long planned vacation, visiting friends and attending a wedding. I was back home, playing single parent and trying to fill up the calendar so that my son […]
Main Dishes
Polenta with Sausage and Broccoli Rabe
Temperatures have dropped this week here in Massachusetts and my appetite has shifted with the weather. I’m reading Bill Buford’s wonderful book, Heat, about his efforts to master Italian cooking in the kitchens of celebrity chef Mario Batali and a colorful cast of Italian chefs back in the Old Country. And I’m particularly entranced with […]
Finally, the most anticipated weekend of autumn is upon us! Columbus Day consistently ranks among the biggest weekends annually for New England tourism, as it offers many three days away from work around the time much of the area is showing peak foliage. To enhance the draw, many agricultural fairs, Octoberfests and autumn festivals are […]
Okay, all you trivia enthusiasts: What’s Hadley, Massachusetts, known for throughout the United States and Europe and even by the queen of England? Yes—asparagus. For some 50 years (1930 through the 1970s), Hadley was called “the Asparagus Capital of the World,” shipping what locals referred to as “Hadley grass” to the British royal family every […]
Cooking Advice
What Are Tapas? | Yankee Kitchen
What are tapas? M.T., Weston, MA Tapas are the Spanish equivalent of what the French call hors d’oeuvres, the Italians antipasti, and some other Mediterranean nations mezes — appetizers or small bites of simple foods eaten before, or in lieu of, a big meal. The apocryphal beginnings of the tapas (the verb tapar means “to […]
Another week of absolutely perfect weather in New England to chronicle in this week’s foliage report! After the incessant rains of summer lasted into early September, most never would’ve imagined a stretch of weather like this to begin the autumn season. Warm, sunny days and cool nights bring out the best foliage colors, and we’ve […]
The relic boat in the foreground adds interest and depth to the distant abandoned smokehouse located in this secluded down east Maine coastal cove. This location in Trescott, Maine Is known by the name “Baileys Mistake” since back in the 1700’s. The story goes something like this: There was then a renowned sea captain, a […]
Magazine
Yankee Magazine Cover | October 1971
October 1971 | “Pre-Season Workout,” Bolton, Massachusetts by Will E. Kirkpatrick