Annie Copps, Food Editor at Yankee Magazine, prepares a spring treat using fresh asparagus. Yankee food editor Annie B. Copps greets spring with this recipe: Asparagus Hummus Served With Dukkah Spiced Pita Chips. Watch the video for tips on cooking asparagus and how to prepare the hummus and chips. Hi, I’m Annie Copps, the Food […]
New England jewelry makers find inspiration in organic shapes and the great outdoors. The result is outstanding pieces that mimic the natural forms of twigs, feathers, birch bark, maple seeds, branches, and bees. View these natural beauties:
With good reason, we felt a bit apprehensive as we approached the side-door entrance on the covered porch, after walking up from the circular driveway, with its dramatic flagpole in the middle. Already we were impressed by the almost full acre of well-cared-for lawns and perennial gardens; the crabapple trees and Norway maples; and the […]
Just about any destination you head to in Boston takes you past the Boston Public Library on Copley Square. Don’t zip by–leave time to poke inside one of the city’s greatest structures. You just might find a day of enlightenment. The building itself is a grand bit of architecture and artwork, with structural references to […]
Once a summer or so, I paddle my canoe to Leen’s Lodge for dinner. It’s about a half-mile up West Grand Lake from the cove where our camp is located. It takes about 20 minutes, and because I paddle out of a cove into the broad lake and from shadow to sun, I catch up […]
In Portsmouth, NH, the Press Room bar’s simple wooden tables are crowded with young and old, unified only by the bulging journals they keep close at hand and the rapt attention they pay to the poet behind the mic. She whispers a few instructions to the bandleader, he signals his group, and they cobble together […]
With my wife, Sally, three sons and, lately, their wives and children, I’ve spent summer weekends on Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire, for 38 years. So, until a surprise discovery just last summer, I assumed I knew all the fun things to do around New England’s third-largest lake–including having breakfast at The Strawberry Patch in Wolfeboro […]
I was with friends a couple of blocks off Portland‘s Back Cove, a little after 10 pm on a night when the last ferry home to Peaks Island was to depart at 10:30 pm. Getting here from the terminal on my bike had taken a little over half an hour, but that was at a […]
Get with gravity and walk downhill. Let your feet take you where you want to go; sometimes a late-afternoon stroll will lead you into a sublime evening. The Unitarian church on Burlington’s Pearl Street is where you turn left–still ambling downhill–to enter the mall, a.k.a. Church Street Marketplace. Here it’s the street life that commands […]
I recently visited my father’s art studio in Rockport. He had a show with a Cape Ann theme going up soon, and for some reason I asked him whether he’d ever painted Motif No. 1, the iconic red fishing shack on Bradley Wharf. I thought I knew the answer, that being no. But my dad […]
In an effort to persuade me to move back to Rhode Island, my future husband, Lorne, took me to a towering pile of mud in downtown Providence. “Someday,” he announced with a sweep of his arm, “this will be a beautiful river, with footbridges and music and crowds of people.” My reaction? I cried. For […]
There’s a kayak outfit on Martha’s Vineyard that advertises, “You only know it’s an island from the water.” That rang true this day when my husband, Barry, and I dragged our kayaks into the water. His had a rudder, and he could fish while steering with his feet. My job, in my little single kayak, […]
