Welcome to “Holiday Appetizers Through the Decades,” a special series celebrating over 75 years and 9 decades of Yankee Magazine holidays and tasty party appetizers! Each post spotlights a new decade with a classic cover, seasonal advice from the pages of Yankee, and one special party-pleasing holiday appetizer recipe for you to try. Yankee Magazine […]
trees
Christmas tree season is upon us, and with it comes the mission of selecting just the right tree. Since this task is clearly among the most important of the season, we went looking for an expert, and found one in This Old House’s Roger Cook. As a contractor for the PBS series, Roger has been […]
Is this New England’s greatest gift to America? Well, it’s just our opinion…
One of the winners of this year’s Editor’s Choice Food Awards is Dancing Deer Baking Co., specifically their delicious molasses clove cookies. These spicy treats put Dancing Deer on the foodie map when the company first launched as a small wholesale operation in 1994. Twenty years later, they’re still one of our favorite cookies (Dancing Deer […]
Gardens
Make a Holiday Container Garden
Now is the time to gather the evergreen, fir, spruce and pine branches that the autumnal winds have blown from trees for use in a holiday container garden. Save any pruned branches as well, and store outside in a covered location, garage, or shed. If the area where the branches are stored is dry, […]
The village of Hancock, New Hampshire, is certainly resplendent in autumn, and spring and summer show off the lush green of the common, and the full canopy of the many mature trees. A fresh coating of snow gives the place a Currier & Ives vibe in winter. But here in early November, though the leaves […]
North of where you’re reading this, there’s a hayfield with rolling hills, and in a certain portion which probably made poor hay, a farmer thought, “Well, let’s try some balsams.” And in the spring of 2003, he did. Had you visited this plantation last week, you would have wandered across the sprawling meadow into a […]
By the late 1960s, there hadn’t been wild turkeys in New Hampshire for more than a century. Then wildlife biologist Ted Walski came along.
New England
Final New England Fall Foliage Report of 2014
With November’s arrival, we have reached the final New England Fall Foliage Report of 2014 at Yankee Magazine. With the exception of downtown Boston proper, and the far southwestern corner of Connecticut, the fall colors have either faded or fallen around New England. After the rush of autumn activity, the fairgrounds are shuttered, the orchards […]
Exactly what, why & when is Indian summer? The answers are not as simple as you may think…
New England
New England Fall Foliage Largely Past Peak
As the calendar flips to November, we find that New Engand’s fall foliage has move past peak across about ninety-five percent of the region’s reach. Varying degrees of lingering color certainly still catch the eye, but so too did the beautiful crescent moon setting between the bare trees across my yard last night. It’s a […]
Looking back at 100 years of history along the scenic Mohawk Trail in northwestern Massachusetts.