Welcome to the April 2013 edition of Jud’s New England Journal, the rather curious monthly musings of Judson Hale, the Editor-in-Chief of Yankee Magazine, published since 1935 in Dublin, NH. My Favorite April Moments After a long winter, there’s nothing more welcome than the first sighting of a suddenly-open lake. But I recently saw something […]
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9 out of 10 people enjoy hearing or saying the word “yurt.” I know this based on the research I conducted before spending a night in a yurt on top of Shawnee Peak in Maine. You are probably wondering about the one person who doesn’t enjoy hearing or saying the word “yurt.” What’s his deal? […]
“Do you want to go to Lenten Lunch?” My colleague, Ian Aldrich, was on his way over to the Dublin Community Church, a classic white-steepled building two doors down from Yankee‘s offices. I should’ve remembered: Every year during the season of Lent, the church hosts an all-you-can-eat meal of homemade soup and bread for the […]
Find out what it’s like to learn how to ski…again.
Bob King stands at the headworks of an old, 18-foot-high hemlock-and-stone crib dam spanning the Westfield River between Agawam and West Springfield, Massachusetts. It’s mid-April 2012, in the midst of what has been a historically warm spring following an unnaturally dry winter, and the only water coming over the dam shoots through two open sluiceways […]
The president’s house at Unity College is no grand Georgian manor in the New England tradition. The walls are bare of ivy, and the portico, such as it is, shades the entrance with corrugated polycarbonate panels and trains morning-glory vines along its vertical wires. Up above, a blaze of solar panels tilt skyward. They encase […]
Blame it on the majestic New England scenery that lured artists to its shores and mountains–or on savvy collectors who had the foresight to purchase the preeminent works of their time. The result is undeniable: The bounty of art found in this region is mind-boggling, from the American collection housed in the Museum of Fine […]
Last Saturday morning— after driving north and away from the heart of the Blizzard of 2013 the night before—I grabbed my gear, skis over my right shoulder and trudged up from the parking lot to the lodge at Burke Mountain in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. Inside the Mid-Burke Lodge, a small stove cranked out heat and […]
Yankee’s January-February issue features one of my favorite recipes: a dish of steamed cod (cooked in foil packets) served over fragrant rice with a deliciously simple ginger-basil sauce. The sauce, made with butter, basil, ginger, star anise, cumin, and chile, comes from a Southeast Asian vegetarian stew that my friend and colleague, Molly Watson, developed […]
We all have our own internal temperature gauge. Some people can handle 30 degrees and some people cannot. During the winter, my gauge registers pretty low compared to the general population, meaning cold digits don’t usually scare me from getting outdoors. But this past Sunday morning, when the outside thermometer read 3.2 degrees at 8 […]
This warm, aromatic, and healthy gluten-free quinoa pudding is based on recipe that blogger and cookbook author Béatrice Peltre (www.latartinegourmande.com) created for our upcoming summer issue. In testing, I loved the dish so much that I’ve been playing with variations at home ever since: for dessert, even for breakfast. It’s as easy to make as […]
