Like a good New Englander, I adore baked beans. On their own with brown bread for Sunday supper, alongside a burger at a summer cookout, or spooned on top of scrambled eggs in the morning for breakfast — those sweet, molasses-infused beans always find a spot on the menu. Still, it’s fun to think of […]
Jud’s New England Journal For January 2013 Welcome to the January 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, N.H. Thoughts On Up and Downs and Overs and Outs From southern Maine, you must go “up” to Bangor […]
I have a new favorite Christmas cookie, a sweet little biscuit flavored with lemon and caraway seeds and finished with a lemon glaze. Even better, the recipe takes us way back to the very beginning of American cooking. In fact, it has its roots in the first cookbook ever published here. The First Christmas “Cookey” […]
Here’s an excerpt from Yankee Publishing Inc.’s newest special interest publication, NH Ski & Snow Magazine. It is available for free at sports and outdoor retailers in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, coastal Connecticut, Southern New Hampshire and Maine, and at New Hampshire Welcome Centers. You can also view the electronic version here: Digital NH Ski and […]
It’s true the 1990’s weren’t that long ago (at least they don’t feel like they were). Still, it’s been 22 years since Madonna showed us how to Vogue and 20 since Bill Clinton played the saxophone on the Arsenio Hall show. The decade of the internet, which introduced us to phrases like “surf the web” […]
As I was working on recipe testing for the latest Yankee cookbook, the gorgeous Lost and Vintage Recipes, I met a cookie that has since muscled its way onto my short list of “absolute favorite cookies.” In truth it was a recipe for homemade graham crackers, but just like their animal cousins, graham crackers are […]
Greek crescent cookies (kourabiedes) are a variation of Christmas shortbread cookies made with nuts and coated in powdered sugar: Russian tea cakes, Mexican wedding cookies, pecan puffs, and snowballs. There are many names for the family of Christmas shortbread cookies made with nuts and coated in powdered sugar: Russian tea cakes, Mexican wedding cookies. In […]
Whether it’s a seeing The Nutcracker, touring historic New England homes, cruising past a sea of twinkling lights, or whipping up traditional wassail, here are some of our picks for the best New England Christmas traditions!
Welcome to the totally awesome eighties — a decade that brought us an actor in the White House, the first home computers, Ninetendo, designer jeans, and hair so big it required an entire can of hairspray just to keep the mountains of crimped waves in place. The holiday season during the 1980’s channeled the yuletide […]
Ready or not, here come the holidays! A fun part of every holiday season are the holiday parties that fill our weekends from Thanksgiving to New Year’s. Whether a small gathering or large bash, formal or casual, the hallmark of every holiday party (besides the carefully hung mistletoe) is the food, and my favorite part […]
Slip on your bell bottoms and mood ring and say hello to the groovy 1970’s, an era marked by the Vietnam War, women’s liberation, the release of Star Wars, and the resignation of President Nixon. Holiday parties during the 1970’s may have been lit by lava lamp with a soundtrack fueled by The Jackson 5 […]
View a sampling of Yankee Magazine covers through the decades and let us know if any of them tug on your nostalgic heart strings.
