Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe No Matter How Bad Your Hair Day, There’s Always Someone Like This … Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe Few things in nature are more intimidating than the greasy, tangled mane of a New Englander after he takes off […]
Snow Shoveling Has Never Been So Easy No, it won’t actually remove the snow for you–you still have to get out of bed for that. But the Snow Wolf (formerly the Wovel), made by the New Canaan, Connecticut, company Nootools, won’t have you reaching for the Advil the way you used to, either. In fact, […]
These savory pies are homey, but hardly humble. We think they’re the ultimate winter comfort food.
Snowy days call for ice skating, hot-chocolate picnics, and sledding parties. But even the hardiest New Englander needs a bit of shelter from the cold. Sling this repurposed flannel quilt over your shoulder, and when the winter chill seeps in, unfurl its warmth and snuggle up! Try using soft old shirts and blankets for the […]
For outdoor adventure or indoor comfort, get ready to lose yourself in the beautiful towns and mountains of western Maine.
In downtown Northampton, Massachusetts, there’s one tree that looks particularly well prepared for winter. A colorful stockinette sweater hugs its trunk, with holes carefully placed to accommodate its branches. A yarn monkey dangles from one of the boughs. Around the base of the tree are three twentysomething women knitting furiously. Brie, Rachel, and Katie comprise […]
The winter of 2011 came slowly to north-central Maine. Low snowfall and mild temperatures had run through most of December, giving the deer a reprieve. But in January the season turned cold and unrelenting. For six weeks, there was no thaw, and now the snow on the eastern side of Moosehead Lake lay three feet […]
For almost half a century, Bob Fogg has been Hancock, NH’s man of the hours.
In just a couple weeks, Yankee Magazine’s January/February issue will be on newsstands. It’s a not-so-serious guide to loving winter and includes 43 reasons to embrace the season. This issue resonates with me for many reasons, primarily because I love everything about snow. Plus, who wouldn’t welcome a good excuse to eat doughnuts? (Reason No. […]
Add a little color and beauty to your surroundings this winter by forcing amaryllis bulbs to bloom.
I first tasted Kabocha Squash about six years ago, when I lived in California. It’s practically a fall and winter staple food there, and in the test kitchens at Sunset magazine, where I worked at the time, we came up with all manner of ways to stew, roast, and steam it. Kabocha is a winter […]
There is no better way to know a famous tourist town than arriving off season, when the tourists have left, and the locals reclaim their streets, their beaches, their way of life that brought them here in the first place, perhaps generations ago. I rarely visit a beautiful place without daydreaming at some point about […]
