The spring thaw happens slowly (sometimes much too slowly), so keep warm during the transition with a steaming bowl of soup or creamy chowder. Make a large pot over the weekend and enjoy weekday leftovers, or freeze and enjoy later.
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For a little taste of southern France in northern New England, the Burlington Farmers’ Market on Saturday is the ne plus ultra. Translation: fairly unbeatable. Vendors crowd Burlington’s City Hall Park and spill onto Saint Paul Street, which is closed to traffic during the market, making the experience even friendlier for the throngs of shoppers, […]
New Hampshire
The Friendly Farm in Dublin, NH
Last weekend two of my best friends, Melissa and Kayte, made a pilgrimage from Brooklyn to my new hometown of Keene, New Hampshire. Because they are both native New Englanders, I wanted to make sure their visit included some of the things they couldn’t get in Brooklyn. After a leisurely breakfast of eggs and homemade […]
New Hampshire
Guide to Downtown Keene, New Hampshire
In the small college-town of Keene, New Hampshire (where 5,400 students make up over 1/4 of the population), you’ll find a charming downtown Main Street teeming with shops, restaurants, retro movie theater, and the quintessential New England white clapboard church. Your Kitchen Store. If you want it for your kitchen, they have it. Equally swoon-worthy […]
Rising early on Saturday, January 21, I headed out the door and was on my way to historic Rockland, Maine, to join in the 8th Annual Pies on Parade celebration. The event is held the weekend before what is widely known as National Pie Day each year. The festivities begin on Saturday and include wine […]
Main Dishes
Savory Pies | The Ultimate Comfort Food
These savory pies are homey, but hardly humble. We think they’re the ultimate winter comfort food.
Do you have your Thanksgiving menu worked out? Hopefully you do. But if you don’t, here’s help! We’ve done a lot of Thanksgiving meals over the years here in the Yankee kitchen, and I’ve collected some recipes that happen to by my personal favorites. So if you’re looking for that great turkey or side dish […]
Here’s the view from my “office” today. We’re doing a three-day photo shoot for the new Yankee Favorites cookbook (see last year’s edition), due out in mid-October, and the setting is the beautiful studio of photographer Heath Robbins. This is, hands-down, the nicest studio I’ve ever worked in—5000 square feet of well-lit studio, office, kitchen, and comfortable […]
Magazine
Bobby’s Burger Palace
We like that celebrity chef Bobby Flay appreciates a simple, good burger enough to open a palace of an eatery suitably equipped to showcase them. Right on the gaming floor at Mohegan Sun, Flay offers big, juicy patties with a nod to American regional cooking. His “L.A. Burger” with avocado relish plus a side of […]
Rhode Island
Rhode Island Best Restaurants 2011
BEST POND-TO-PLATE Matunuck Oyster Bar, East Matunuck Dine a stone’s skip from where the oysters are cultivated by the bar’s owner. Try the “Buck a Shuck” ($1 oysters and littlenecks) from 4 to 6 p.m. weekdays. No reservations, but it’s worth the wait. Entrées: from $13.95. 629 Succotash Road. 401-783-4202; rhodyoysters.com BEST EXOTIC MENU Los […]
Desserts
Best 5: Holiday Pies
When you need a rest from holiday cooking, why not buy a homemade pie? These five New England bakeries make all their pies from scratch. No matter how you slice it, there’s sweet satisfaction here. We asked Victoria Abbott Riccardi, a Boston-based food, travel, and nutrition writer and author of Untangling My Chopsticks: A Culinary […]
Magazine
Spend a Winter Day in New England
7:30 A.M. WHERE THE SUN RISES FIRST Sunrise from Cadillac Mountain reveals a coastline carved with a crooked knife. From that famous vantage on Mount Desert Island, the coast of Maine comes out of the dark. It’s a complicated affair of peninsulas and coves, a jigsaw of rock and water, a play of motion and […]