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. With the […]
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Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts
The sun was just peeking over the hills as I headed south on Route 10 toward Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, painting the landscape in hues of rust and burnt umber. The end of October is a bit late in the season to expect the fiery reds and yellows of peak foliage in the northern New England […]
A look back at some of our favorite vintage and retro holiday appetizers from eight decades of Yankee Magazine.
For most, the holiday season is defined by its rituals and traditions. Whether it’s a carol-singing stroll with neighbors followed by steaming cups of hot cocoa, savoring each bite of Grandma’s famous pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving, or curling up in Dad’s lap for a reading of Twas the Night Before Christmas before bed on Christmas […]
Over the last few months, both Aimee Seavey and I have blogged about our work testing recipes for an upcoming Yankee cookbook. And now that project is done and printed and for sale on our site! We have had so much fun on this project, combing through our archives to find recipes that sounded delicious […]
Not only does kale pack a nutritional punch, it’s delicious, too. Add more of this leafy green into your diet using these tasty recipes from Yankee Magazine.
Cooking Advice
Yankee’s Best Lost and Vintage Recipes
Recipes tell a story. Not in the familiar sense–there are no plot points in the ingredients list, no surprise endings in the method (except, maybe, when it comes to soufflés). But if you step back and look at recipes over time and as a whole, they tell a rich story about how people lived: how, […]
History
Red Chair Visits Yankee Magazine
On a late September day, the Red Chair made its way to the small town of Dublin, New Hampshire, population less than 2,000. In the shadow of Mount Monadnock, the second most-climbed mountain in the world, tiny Dublin is one of those places where the town hall, the fire station, the library and the police […]
Not long ago one of our nation-wide questions was, “What are we going to do about the younger generation?” Today the query has been reversed; although it is implied, rather than stated openly, many older people seem to be asking. “What is the younger generation going to do about us?” This curious new attitude has […]
Massachusetts
On Common Ground | Old Sturbridge Village
The enduring spirit of the people who came before us lives on in the interpreters of Old Sturbridge Village.
Lucy Tuttle sits on a patch of grass facing the empty storefront where she has sold her family’s produce for the last 35 years. She leans back, pressing her palms into soft grass still wet with dew. It is an unusually warm spring morning in Dover, New Hampshire. The air smells fresh, a combination of […]
A ride in the Hood blimp offers unique scenic views of the Massachusetts north shore from the most famous blimp in New England! I arrived at the Beverly airport twenty minutes early. It isn’t everyday a person has the opportunity to ride in a blimp, and I wasn’t about to miss my chance because of […]