For the would-be do-it-yourselfer, our guide to homesteading, from cheesemaking to raising chickens to building your own (tiny) house in New England. Here in the land of Yankee ingenuity, the desire to be more self-sufficient is something like a birthright. Conspicuous consumption may be our economy’s primary driver, but the Puritan ethic still holds some […]
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Main Dishes
Updated Chicken a la King Recipe
A modern updated chicken a la king recipe. This version uses more vegetables, fresh herbs and shallots, less flour, and crème fraîche instead of cream.
I was lucky enough to be invited to ride along with Game Warden Sergeant Tim Spahr and the field producers for North Woods Law. Here is my first hand account of that day. State of Maine Game Wardens do much more than check to see if people have a valid fishing or hunting license. Wildlife […]
Cooking Advice
Cooking 101
If you want to be a chef — and these days, it seems nearly everyone does — you’ve got to have a first-class culinary education. And to get a first-class culinary education, you’ve got to go to Paris, or London, or at least Hyde Park, New York, home of the Culinary Institute of America. Or […]
January 1 1904. L Street Brownies take their first plunge into the frigid waters of South Boston’s Dorchester Bay, beginning a tradition that still continues. January 3 1920. Boston Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sells Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees. January 5 1643. First divorce granted in the American Colonies. January 6 1994. […]
History
The Yankee Datebook
January 1 1904. L Street Brownies take their first plunge into the frigid waters of South Boston’s Dorchester Bay, beginning a tradition that still continues. January 2 Women ski and ride Okemo Mountain in Ludlow, Vermont, all day for just $39. Also Jan. 9, 16, and 30. 800-786-5366, 802-228-4041; okemo.com January 3 1920. Boston Red […]
Connecticut
Mystic Seaport, Mystic, CT
On a cold winter Saturday, I did something you can do at only one place on earth — climb aboard the last surviving wooden whaling ship. The 1841 square-rigged Charles W. Morgan has long been Mystic Seaport’s prime attraction, but nearly everyone who tramps along the deck or explores the dark recesses below does so […]
Massachusetts
A Perfect Weekend In (Greater) Boston
Can you get the full Boston experience in one weekend? Probably not. But that’s okay. It just means you’ll have to make a return visit.
Victoria Blewer left New York City in 1986 to devote herself full time to fine art photography in the quiet hills of Vermont. Her photographs are shot with black and white film — many with infrared black and white film, printed on a porous photographic paper, and then toned for color and longevity. Her technique […]
Can oysters help New England’s coast survive climate change? One Billion Oysters The only place most of us ever see an oyster is on ice. It’s an expensive delicacy, a sensuous mouthful associated with the boudoir by way of the belly. If you live near the seacoast, your knowledge might extend to the names of […]
Living
The Diseases of Astonishment
The Salem Witch Trials began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister’s daughter began to scream and convulse. They ended less than a year later but not before the execution of 19 people and the unfolding of a mystery that shaped the future American republic. In 1692 the Massachusetts Bay Colony […]
Tucked away in the Nutmeg State’s Litchfield Hills, Salisbury, Connecticut, is a lovely town where it’s possible to take flight.