Was New England-born Samuel Wilson the real Uncle Sam? Find out more about the man (and meat inspector) behind an American legend.
massachusetts
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 […]
How a recipe for old-fashioned whoopie pies became one family’s memory to savor.
New Hampshire
Parker’s Maple Barn Restaurant in Mason, New Hampshire
A visit to Parker’s Maple Barn Restaurant in Mason, NH for the perfect Sunday breakfast served with pure maple syrup.
Tips on how to get started and how to avoid costly mistakes. Collecting is among our most basic human instincts. Whether we intentionally set out to or not, most of us collect something. Karen Keane knows this better than most: Now the CEO of one of the world’s leading auction houses, Skinner Inc., based in […]
In Newbury, Massachusetts, slate artist Michael Updike etches stories into stone.
Spring has sprung! Daffodils, crocuses, and forsythia have all begun to bloom (or will soon) and we’re throwing open our windows and planning outdoor weekend adventures.
Magazine
5 Best New England Maple Experiences
Looking for a few new ways to love maple beyond the pancake breakfast? Add these New England maple experiences to your “sap bucket” list.
Five years before Ben & Jerry’s there was Steve’s Ice Cream in Somerville, Massachusetts.
When we told the story of the the first fried clam in 1979, we expected our readers to weigh in. And weigh in they did.
Do you know where the first chocolate chip cookie was invented? Learn the history of Toll House Cookies, America’s favorite cookie.
Living
Sap Buckets | Up Close
Nearly two million gallons of maple syrup were produced in New England in 2015. Collecting enough sap (at 2% sugar content) to produce that much syrup would require more than 16,700,000 five-gallon sap buckets. One Native American legend claims that the first sap bucket was never intended as such. The story goes that a Native […]