Excerpt from “Beans and Harmony,” Yankee Magazine, February 1995. Being married to a Yankee meant we had franks and beans every Saturday night for years. Our eldest daughter hated beans, but her father insisted she eat every bean on her plate. I’d like to say that when she grew up she learned to like baked […]
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A warm and spicy Christmas Wassail Bowl recipe from Ireland is the perfect way to warm up your holiday menu.
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Seafood Recipes
Despite the teeming availability of smelts in southern Maine waters in January, the Yankee recipe database has few smelt recipes. Other fish recipes abound, so here are the smelts and five more warm fish dishes for cold winter nights. RECIPES
View the winners of the 2014 Editors’ Choice Food Awards — Cheese Category. Photo/Art by Heath Robbins ASCUTNEY MOUNTAIN COBB HILL CHEESE Hartland, Vermont Cobb Hill Farm is a Vermont cooperative where residents run a farm, dairy, frozen-yogurt business, and maple operation, among other ventures. Neighbors Sophie Starr, Bonnie Hills, and Jeannine Kilbride manage the […]
View the winners of the 2014 Editors’ Choice Food Awards — Beverages. CHAI SPICE TEA BLEND CHAI WALLAH Guilford, Vermont The trick to a great chai is getting the balance of tea and spices–cardamom, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, and black pepper–in exactly the right proportions to make a drink that’s simultaneously warming, sweet, dusky, floral, and a […]
October means that everything-pumpkin season is here again, and while the world keeps finding new ways to add the popular “pumpkin spice” flavor to things we never thought possible (snack chips, gum, bagels….dog treats?), pumpkin classics like this reader-favorite pumpkin bread recipe from the Harborside House in Marblehead, Massachusetts rely on real pumpkin for the […]
How a savvy entrepreneur named Bo Muller-Moore took on a corporate giant and made a leafy green an “Eat More Kale” star in the process.
While gazpacho is the perfect chilled summer soup, and a hearty bowl of beef stew is just the thing for a cold winter night, this slightly-spicy roasted red pepper soup is the perfect bowl for those in-between months. Because it tastes delicious both hot or cold, we think it’s the perfect year-round soup. Having said […]
What makes Grape-Nuts Pudding — a New England comfort-food classic — truly great? The secret’s in the cereal.
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Constant Comment
Since 1945, the Bigelow Tea Company has been supplying New England and beyond with quality teas, and none is more popular than the brand’s signature blend, Constant Comment. It was invented by Ruth Campbell Bigelow in the kitchen of her New York City brownstone in 1945. Unhappy with the teas available on the market at […]
Here is a craft project that is absolutely foolish (in a good way) and will bring a smile to anyone who receives it. It’s a cookie portrait — a silhouette portrait turned into cookie art! For the purposes of this blog I chose to make an Elvis portrait because he is easily recognized by a […]
The Northern Quahog | Up Close The deep waters of the open ocean are too salty for the northern quahog’s comfort, so these hard-shelled clams live buried in the sandy bottoms of estuaries along the Atlantic coast. They’re most prevalent between Cape Cod and New Jersey, with Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay a prime source. Ever […]