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Yankee Magazine Covers | 1980s
The 1980s were an exciting era for Yankee‘s designers — all issues would henceforth be printed in full color. In 1982, Yankee ran out of space to publish all of the Christmas cookie recipes of “40 ladies who for 11 years had gotten together to swop cookies and treasured family cookie recipes.” So, they published instead […]
July 1983 | “Fourth of July in Rockport,” a watercolor by George Shedd
The 1980s were an exciting era for Yankee‘s designers — all issues would henceforth be printed in full color.
In 1982, Yankee ran out of space to publish all of the Christmas cookie recipes of “40 ladies who for 11 years had gotten together to swop cookies and treasured family cookie recipes.” So, they published instead a promise to send the remaining recipes to anyone who sent them a self-addressed envelope. 15,000 requests came in. “Crates of envelopes and recipe packets were carried home to our unsuspecting and innocent families. Cozy nights by the fire thinking about Christmas became frantic nights prodding children to ‘keep licking.'” Mel Allen, All Memories Invited, September 1985. Yankee Fun Fact: In 1985, Yankee turned 50!
