Looking to rest your head in the Pine Tree State? We’ve got you covered! Check out our picks for the best lodging in Maine for 2015. Best Walk-to-Everything Location 2 Village Square, Ogunquit Walk to shops, galleries, restaurants, the beach, and the Marginal Way, if you can tear away from the heated pool, hot tub, […]
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We board the schooner American Eagle in the late-summer darkness, the last of the 26 passengers to arrive for the four-day Penobscot Bay cruise that will set sail in the morning. Captain John Foss welcomes us. His pride in this ship that his hands transformed from a worn-out fishing schooner to a jewel of the […]
Camping Life | Thoreau’s Maine: A Photo Story of an Epic Adventure The beauty of being guided by experienced Maine guides is that after a hard day’s paddling and carrying, there awaited a neat campsite, a warming fire, and delicious hot food that tasted better than any food could possibly taste indoors. Camp time was […]
This year marks Yankee‘s 80th anniversary. Eighty years! Not bad for an independent , family-owned publishing company (actually, the reason we’ve survived this long probably has everything to do with not having been swallowed up by a New York-based media conglomerate). We’re planning a full anniversary issue in September and for that reason, I’ve been […]
The country’s first school lunch program got its start in Boston during the 1890s, inspired by an attempt to provide good, cheap, and nourishing food to the poor. The first organized attempt to change America’s eating habits took place more than 125 years ago, when some privileged Bostonians, reformers to the core, formed an enterprise […]
In Caribou, Maine, where some of the coldest temperatures in North America have been recorded and where subzero temperatures often linger for days, people have learned, “If you can’t embrace it, you’re never gonna like it.”
How Boston cream pie — a French-inspired cake — became New England’s favorite pie. Well, sort of …
Think of New England food and a few key ingredients will come to mind: corn, molasses, seafood, maple syrup, blueberries. Yes, cranberries, too, but few restaurants specialize in them. And no, apples aren’t native to our shores (only crabapples). The others, often in combination, are the cornerstones of classic New England dishes such as johnnycakes […]
Eating locally should also mean embracing traditional regional food. Find 15 eras of authentic New England flavor at these favorite eateries.
Massachusetts
Newburyport, Massachusetts | It’s a Wonderful Life
Snow blows off the harbor at Newburyport, Massachusetts, carrying whispers of clipper ships. They glide in from the Atlantic, these ghosts from the past, weary from the West Indies, laden with molasses destined to become rum. Soften your eyes, and you can almost see them. From the Gold Coast, from Lisbon, they sail home to […]
Food
Shaker Cider Pie
Made with boiled cider and maple sugar, Shaker Cider Pie boasts robust old-fashioned flavor in a golden, buttery crust. Never heard of boiled cider? Once a popular pantry-staple along with molasses and maple syrup, boiled cider is made by simmering apple cider for hours until it reduces into a thick, syrupy consistency that’s full of […]
This Maine foliage drive zips through back-roads Maine from Whitefield to Wiscasset. You may just want to stay forever.