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Cooking Advice
Yankee‘s Thanksgiving Tips
It’s all about food and home and holiday entertaining for the next few months. Start here with helpful tips and superb recipes to make your Thanksgiving a delight: Decorating made easy with Matthew Mead’s ideas. 25 Thanksgiving tips for hosts.Delivered Daily: New England Recipes and Tried & True Kitchen Tips from the Editors of Yankee […]
History
Time to Walk in the Woods Again
Welcome to the November 2007 edition of Jud’s New England Journal, the rather curious monthly musings of Judson Hale, editor-in-chief of Yankee Magazine, published for over 70 years in Dublin, New Hampshire. Time to Walk in the Woods Again With the leaves gone and the ground bare, this is the month to discover weird rocks […]
Living
The Impossible Nightmare
From Yankee Magazine October 1996 October 25, 1986, was supposed to be the happiest day of my life: my wedding day. All of New England was preparing for the big day, too, frenzied with the idea of throwing a party put on hold for 68 years. That night the Red Sox would play the New […]
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Cookbooks: New England
In our world, Jasper White is the king of New England. We may be a bit deferential, but this is the chef who made anadama bread, clam chowder, and johnnycakes cool again after years of embarrassing teases that New England food was no good. His latest, The Summer Shack Cookbook: The Complete Guide to Shore […]
Have you ever wondered if heating with wood would trim your fuel bills? Look over the information in these charts to help find the answer.
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Firewood Facts
New England boasts three of the top five most forested states in the nation. Maine heads the list with 90 percent of its land area forested. New Hampshire ranks second with 86 percent forest cover, and Vermont comes in fourth, with 78 percent forest cover. A cord of wood is a stack of logs 4 […]
Yankee Magazine proudly recognizes the “Angels Among Us 2007.” Congratulations to these dedicated New Englanders who are making a difference!
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A Logger’s Life | First Light
Behind the romance of curling woodsmoke, being a logger is one tough profession. Our wood chart shows you the relative heat values of New England’s fuel woods. You see the woodpiles everywhere around here, tidy rows covered by old corrugated roofing panels, sprawling jumbles beneath blue plastic tarps, glimpses of neatly stacked cordwood on back […]
New England’s style genius, Matthew Mead, creates a sparkling new look for decorating for the holidays, from tabletops to mantels, to staircase. Love of nature and a passion for colorful china and glassware are the essential ingredients in Matthew’s elegant style. Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe Follow his tips […]
Get your landscaping ready for New England’s bitter months by reading our tips to prepare your garden for winter. Our canna lilies and dahlias bloomed fabulously this summer, but I understand they’re not hardy enough to survive our winter outdoors. What do you recommend? — D.C., Antrim, NHGet Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations […]
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Deerfield, MA: Spinning Wheel Chair
Industrialization, the advent of electricity, and the closing of the frontier provoked a national identity crisis at the end of the 19th century. Nostalgia for the simpler America of the Founding Fathers led to a movement known as the Colonial Revival. This Windsor-style chair, which is made from old flax wheels, typifies the desire to […]