It’s Academy Awards time. That means a party! Dress up, take your seats, and let the party begin. With these show-stoppers from Yankee food editor Annie B. Copps, there’s no end to the elegance. Oysters, figs, salmon, shrimp…and the winner is? Also, find a winter party menu and exciting recipes from Eric and Lisa Friedman […]
This past Sunday I drove west about 30 miles, to Brattleboro, Vermont, where the best of what a core group of people in a community can do was on full display. From the early 1920s, when outdoor visionary Fred Harris, founder of both the Brattleboro Outing Club and the Dartmouth Outing Club, brought Brattleboro to […]
My parents met in a lift line at Stowe Mountain. I know they are not the only people who fell in love at a ski resort. In fact, my brother and his wife first set eyes on one another during a pre-season ski patrol meeting at Sugarbush, VT. And my boyfriend’s sister met her husband […]
When I first came here to Mary’s farm, I named the place “Stillpoint” because it was so quiet here and because it was the still point in my turning world. It still is that, even as the world turns ever faster. The stillness in the early spring is especially profound, with the fields still deep […]
Best Cook Tinky Weisblat is the “Queen of Puddings.” Try her recipes for Maple-Apple Pudding and Eggplant Pudding and see for yourself! Tinky Weisblat is sitting at her kitchen table, piled high with recipes and ingredients. With a wooden spoon, she’s creaming butter, eggs, and sugar. At the moment, the house smells of pudding, as […]
No roads follow the neat borderline between New England and Canada that you see on the map. Instead, you have to traverse, back and forth, in and out of Canada–a rough stitch that has pulled the two countries together since before either of them was a nation. This is the story of that line–a line […]
Gardeners know winter really does end, and spring color always returns. Pansies, daffodils, and forsythia commonly herald the vernal transition, but still other blooms also contribute to a stunning early-season display. Here’s how three New England gardens host diverse plantings that strut their stuff in April and May.Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations […]
1. Stay for an Ivy League weekend at the Study at Yale. 2. Collect antiques — antique Valentines, that is. 3. Buy chocolate. Here are some Top Chocolate Shops.Delivered Daily: New England Recipes and Tried & True Kitchen Tips from the Editors of Yankee Magazine Email(Required) Subscribe 4. Make your own sweets with these seven […]
Anadama Bread Winter was the worst. The farm windows iced inside, wind howled down off the upper field; through the gauze curtains it kissed our foreheads, noses buried in featherbed crazy-quilts. Wooden spindle framed our heads. It was too cold for ceiling mice. We always had to pee just before dawn. When the […]
Plum Island was deserted except for a slightly offbeat mother, her twelve-year-old daughter and four young sons, including five-year-old twins. I was that mother. If there were another whose children were running wild and free on the island that Easter Sunday, she was nowhere in sight. A winter chill hung on the breeze. Ripples furrowed […]
I once read in a guidebook: “Of all the natural regions of the United States, New England is the smallest, the most compact and convenient to get around in, the most homogeneous… ” For four decades now, I’ve lived and worked in New England, the land from which America evolved. There are few nooks and […]
Andrew Wyeth is dead. He reportedly passed away peacefully in his sleep at the great age of 91. Had this been summer, he probably would have drifted away in Port Clyde, Maine, but, as it is winter, his final resting place was Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, the little hamlet where he was born in 1917. America’s […]
