Our new house was built in 1920 and is the oldest house I’ve ever owned. I feel like I should turn in my Yankee credentials to admit that fact, but there it is. My childhood homes near Hartford, CT were built in the 1940s and 1980s, respectively. When my husband and I bought our first […]
By Amy Traverso
Nov 15 2011
There was also this Lea & Perrins relic.
But what to do with what seemed, to me, little treasures?
First, I rinsed them in water, brushed them in oil, and let them sit for a couple of weeks to loosen the dirt. Then I gently washed them with dish soap. I figured I’d mount these pieces in a shadow box, but on an impulse stop at HomeGoods, I found a jewelry case with a hinged door and padded linen background.
A few pearl-head straight pins later and I had a cute display that took all of five minutes to pull together.
It now hangs in our living room, where it makes me feel a little more connected to the owners who came before us.
Amy Traverso is the senior food editor at Yankee magazine and co-host of the public television series Weekends with Yankee, a coproduction with WGBH. Previously, she was food editor at Boston magazine and an associate food editor at Sunset magazine. Her work has also been published in The Boston Globe, Saveur, and Travel & Leisure, and she has appeared on Hallmark Home & Family, The Martha Stewart Show, Throwdown with Bobby Flay, and Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares. Amy is the author of The Apple Lover’s Cookbook, which was a finalist for the Julia Child Award for best first-time author and won an IACP Cookbook Award in the “American” category.
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