Readers respond to the articles in the July/August 2008 issue of Yankee magazine.
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Award-winning pastry chef Ciril Hitz, a department chairman and instructor at Johnson and Wales University, always carried with him a fond recollection of the aroma of fresh bread baking to perfection in the wood-fired ovens so common in his native Switzerland. PROJECT Wood-Fired Oven Today, he and his wife, Kylee, live in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, in […]
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10 Apple Desserts
Yankee‘s senior lifestyle editor, Amy Traverso, picked her favorite New England apples: Blue Pearmain, Black Oxford, Roxbury Russet, Baldwin, and Rhode Island Greening. Undoubtedly you have your own favorites, so here are some outstanding ways to use them. Read more: Best New England Apples RECIPES
Peter Ralston is telling me about a boy he once knew. In 1957, when the boy is seven years old, he moves to an old gray stone house in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.
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Making the Final Choice on Katahdin
In the frozen grips of a fierce storm on Mt. Katahdin, each man’s choice was his own. On Thursday evening, January 31, 1974, a fierce winter storm cut a swath of destruction across northern New England. It tore roofs off of mobile homes and tossed them into nearby trees, and sent tree limbs crashing into […]
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Snow Emergency
Excerpt from “Snow Emergency,” Yankee Magazine, January 1990. Snow has fallen, snow on snow: the words of the bleak midwinter carol fulfill themselves. The newspapers have been full of the snow, the newspapers thrown on lawns and porches have been buried under it. TV has warned and advised against it and hourly reports its progress. […]
The author learns the hard way how to drive a sled dog team.
Welcome to the August 2008 edition of Jud’s New England Journal, the rather curious monthly musings of Judson Hale, editor-in-chief of Yankee Magazine, published since 1935 in Dublin, New Hampshire. Making Fun of Democrats and/or Republicans Actually, New Englanders have always managed to make fun of just about everyone …Get Our FREE Yankee Best New […]
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Classic: Seasons of Ice
Yankee classic from January 1981 People who live along inland waters in northern New England know there are really only two seasons: ice-in and ice-out. All else is but prelude and aftermath. A frozen lake draws us: we dare it early and we dare it late, probing the limits of a most delicate balance — […]
Yankee Classic from December 1986 For me, nothing brings purpose to a day like making a pie. For me, nothing is more comfortable … comforting … than a pie. Years ago, when I was first married and learning to cook, I resolved that above all else I wanted to be able to make excellent pies. […]
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The Gift of the Glaciers
During my childhood summers in Chester County, Pennsylvania I did many things: played baseball, rode my bike, caught fireflies, waited for the twilight jingle of the ice cream truck — but swimming in clear fresh water was not one of them. My town was too far south for the ice age glaciers to have reached […]
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International Picnics
I’ve been on the road for about a week, with more miles ahead of me. I sometimes tell people I don’t write for a living, I drive. I once calculated that I had driven a million miles in the course of my work for Yankee and that was some time ago. If I have to […]