Yankee Food Awards Gift Guide

For all of New England’s extraordinary, award-winning restaurants, our region’s culinary greatness isn’t limited to its dining rooms. From northern Maine to southern Connecticut, in city kitchens, farmstead dairies, artisan bakeries, apiaries, confectioner’s shops, and commercial commissaries, some of the country’s most talented chefs and makers are producing food destined for your home kitchen. Since 2013, Yankee has been seeking out the best such chocolates, cheeses, cookies, jams, pickles, charcuterie, and sauces, as well as those iconic New England foods so beloved in our six states. And every year, we have celebrated these finds with the Yankee Food Awards.

To mark our first decade of these awards, we’ve compiled the complete list of winners whose products are still in production (and all of which can be ordered online). Our hope is that you will peruse the list for your own pleasure or to spark ideas for gift shopping. After all, it’s hard to think of a nicer present than delicious food made with so much care and love.