Breads

How to Make Yeast Rolls

With just a hint of sweetness, this feather-light dinner roll recipe is a baking essential. Learn how to make yeast rolls to serve with dinner tonight.

Fish & Seafood

The Strangest Ways to Eat Lobster

Lobster ice cream? Lobster doughnuts? Here are some of the most creative (and strangest) ways you can consume lobster in New England.

Food

The 2021 Yankee Food Awards

Celebrating the makers of the best New England artisan foods, from cheeses to chocolates to blueberry muffins, all delivered right to your doorstep.

Desserts

The Best Old-Fashioned Hermits Recipe

An irresistible blend of crisp, chewy, sweet and spicy, this raisin-studded hermits recipe bakes up the perfect iced bar cookie.

Food

Buon Appetito!

In the panoply of better-known Italian-American holiday traditions—if any of them are truly known beyond the nearly 16 million of us in the United States whose family roots go back to Italy—the Feast of the Seven Fishes looms largest. Based on a Sicilian tradition called la vigilia, this Christmas Eve meal is a multi­course pescatory […]

Food

Toll House Cookies: The Original Chocolate Chip Cookie

Learn how New England innkeeper Ruth Wakefield invented the most popular cookie in America (Toll House Cookies) by adding Nestlé chocolate bits to her cookies—to create what today is known as a chocolate chip cookie.

Main Dishes

Cider-Braised Beef Short Ribs

The hard cider serves to cut through and balance the richness of the ribs in this comforting fall recipe from Carr’s Ciderhouse in Hadley, Massachusetts.

New England

Best Cider Donuts in New England

Wondering where to find the best cider donuts in New England? Here are 5 favorite apple cider donut spots.

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