Massachusetts

Best Dining in Massachusetts | 2015 Editors’ Choice Awards

Hungry? The Bay State offers plenty of restaurant options for hungry residents and visitors alike. Here are our picks for the best food & dining in Massachusetts for 2015. BEST FARM-TO-TABLE DINING PRAIRIE WHALE, Great Barrington Wunderkind restaurateur Mark Firth was thriving with farm-to-table restaurants in Brooklyn, but he decided to get much closer to […]

Vermont

Best Dining in Vermont | 2015 Editors’ Choice Awards

Hungry? The Green Mountain State offers plenty of restaurant options for hungry residents and visitors alike. Here are our picks for the best food & dining in Vermont for 2015. HISTORIC HIGHLIGHT – BEST NEW OLD STORE J. J. HAPGOOD GENERAL STORE & EATERY, Peru (1827) Back in 1827, J. J. Hapgood didn’t serve pizza—at least […]

New Hampshire

Best of the New Hampshire Seacoast | 2015 Editors’ Choice Awards

Heading to the New Hampshire Seacoast? We’ve got the perfect roundup of what to see, do, and eat while you’re there, plus where to stay when it’s time for bed. Read on to see our picks for the best of the NH coast for 2015! BEST ATTRACTIONS ON THE NEW HAMPSHIRE SEACOAST Best Summer Concerts […]

Rhode Island

Best of Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island | 2015 Editors’ Choice Awards

Heading to Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island? We’ve got the perfect roundup of what to see, do, and eat while you’re there, plus where to stay when it’s time for bed. Read on to see our picks for the best of Narragansett Bay for 2015! BEST ATTRACTIONS IN NARRAGANSETT BAY BEST PETTING ZOO BIOMES MARINE […]

Rhode Island

Best Outdoor Attractions in Rhode Island | 2015 Editors’ Choice Awards

The Ocean State has plenty to offer in the Great Outdoors. Read our picks for the best outdoor attractions in Rhode Island for 2014. BEST SURF LESSONS PETER PAN SURFING & SUP ACADEMY, Narragansett Peter Panagiotis, better known as the wave-riding world’s legendary Peter Pan, is as passionate about introducing people to water sports as he was in 1976 […]

Maine

Best Bargains in Maine | 2015 Editors’ Choice Awards

Pinching pennies never felt so good! Check out our picks for the best bargains in Maine for 2015. Best Portland Art Immersion First Friday Art Walk, Portland On the first Friday of every month, Portland’s art community opens its doors, with gallery and museum events, street performances, and more. Free. firstfridayartwalk.com Best Twofer Lobster Rolls Tracey’s […]

Maine

Ogunquit, Maine | Best Beach Town

In Ogunquit, folks plan each summer day according to the tides. Halfway between high tide and low tide, when the current of the Ogunquit River flows swiftly out to the Atlantic, people congregate on the flat stretch of sand that rolls down to the riverbank. They carry an assortment of flotation devices: rafts, boogie boards, […]

Vermont

Best of Scenic Route 100 in Vermont | 2014 Editors’ Choice Awards

Heading to scenic Route 100 in Vermont this year? Along with classics like a day of skiing at Okemo Mountain in Ludlow or stopping for cider donuts at Cold Hollow Cider Mill in Waterbury, we’ve got the perfect roundup of what to see, do, and eat while you cruise Route 100, plus where to stay […]

Food

Fish Cakes | Recipe with a History

A sacred fish, Yankee thrift, and Lenten tradition gave us a classic New England dish that’s worth celebrating and reinventing.

Maine

Culture of the Cold in Caribou, Maine

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.”

Food

Native New England Ingredients

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 […]

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