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Revisiting New England best restaurants, circa 1940
An old advertisement for the Hotel Puritan in Boston A few weeks ago, I wrote about Imogene Wolcott, Yankee’s first food editor, and her list of the “20 Most New Englandy Dishes.“ Many readers...
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Easy Lemon Sherbet
Lemon Sherbet What is sherbet and how was it different from sorbet? I never quite knew until this delicious recipe inspired a little research. Turns out sherbet is like a cross between ice cream and...
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Perfect Fried Chicken
Fried chicken is having a renaissance. Of course, it never really went away. But this year, I’m hearing about fried chicken pop-up restaurants, seeing fried chicken recipes in every newspaper and...
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Brown Bread Muffins
Brown bread may not strike you as a summer treat, but I’d argue that, along with cornbread, it’s the perfect accompaniment to barbecue. And we’ve made it simpler by taking the bread out of the steaming...
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Berry-Fig Cream Parfaits
Summer is approaching peak bounty here in New England. Blueberries, raspberries, figs, peaches are in every market. They looked so gorgeous at the store today that I created this simple parfait...
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Gearing up for Apple Season
It’s always exciting to see the first local apples in the markets. I saw some this past weekend at a farm stand on the New York/Vermont border. They were labeled “Early Macs,” which means they were...
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Beach Plum Jam
I spent the last week of August in Wellfleet with my family. On Cape Cod, the end of summer is an ambivalent time. There’s the sense that the best of the season is behind you, the Forth of July...
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Colonial Baking at Plimoth Plantation
There’s a new exhibit at Plimoth Plantation, a working bakery that will bring early American baking traditions to life. Located in the newly renovated Craft Center, the bakery (named the Plimoth...
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Jeremy Sewall’s Roasted Cauliflower Soup
I don’t know if any chefs with deeper New England roots than Jeremy Sewall. His restaurant, Lineage, lies just off the corner of Sewall Avenue (named after his ancestor Samuel Sewall) in Brookline,...
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10 Tips for Making Great Pie
First, let me say that pie is one of my favorite things to make. But it took time to get comfortable with making pie crust and whenever I teach a pie-making class, I see the fear. But with these tips...
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Holiday Factory Tour: Dancing Deer Baking Co.
One of the winners of this year’s Editor’s Choice Food Awards is Dancing Deer Baking Co., specifically their delicious molasses clove cookies. These spicy treats put Dancing Deer on the foodie map when...
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Secrets of spritz cookies
Spritz cookies, dipped in icing The Iced Cranberry Spritz Cookies that appear in this month’s issue of Yankee are sweet, buttery, and tangy. And with just 7 ingredients, they’re incredibly simple...
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Perfect Roast Chicken
We have been getting so much enthusiastic feedback from our readers about Marjorie Druker’s roast chicken recipe, which ran in the November/December 2014 issue, that we’ve decided to bring it to you...
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Testing Tom Brady’s Pancakes
Basking in today’s recaps of the Patriot’s unbelievable Super Bowl victory last night, I stumbled across this story about Tom Brady’s favorite pancakes on Eater.com. It links to a video in which Tom...
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Best-Ever Brownies | Step-by-Step Recipe
What makes these brownies so good? They’re dense, crisp on top, chewy in the center, and intensely chocolately. I’ve been making this recipe since I was 11 years old and have yet to find another that...
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Maine Potato Donuts
We’ve run a few good recipes for Maine potato donuts over the years, but this particular one was inspired by a very old Yankee story, circa 1937, which was just three years after the magazine was...
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Cardamom Coffee Cake | Step-by-Step Instructions
Every cook needs a great coffee cake recipe for those lazy Sundays or potluck brunches or bake sales. This cardamom coffee cake is one of my favorites. It’s a classic crumb cake, topped with a generous...
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Potato Chowder to Pesto: A Brief History of Yankee’s Recipe Archives
This year marks Yankee‘s 80th anniversary. Eighty years! Not bad for an independent , family-owned publishing company (actually, the reason we’ve survived this long probably has everything to do with...
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Spring Pea Soup with Shrimp Dumplings
This elegant soup is inspired by a classic Chinese dish, shrimp and snow peas, but the preparation will please any frugal New Englander. Every ingredient is fully consumed and nothing is wasted. You...
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Lemon Zest Cake
Jessica Robinson grew up on a small farm in Connecticut, where her family grew crops, raised livestock, and operated a maple sugar house. Long before “Eat Local” became a slogan, she was living it....
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Brooke Dojny’s Shrimp and Fennel Chowder
Just as we were wrapping up work on on our big chowder story in the March/April issue, I learned that Maine cookbook author Brooke Dojny was publishing a new book called Chowderland: Hearty Soups &...
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Connecticut River Shad with Asparagus | A Recipe for Shad Season
Tracy Medeiros loves farmers and local food. She’s written two books about the homegrown delights of her adopted state of Vermont—Dishing up Vermont and The Vermont Farm Table Cookbook. And now, with...
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A Delicious 15-Minute Asparagus and Mushroom Salad
It’s prime asparagus season, a tender green bonanza, a harbinger of summer’s bounty. And nowhere is this season more celebrated than in the Pioneer Valley of west-central Massachusetts. For many years,...
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Inside the New Boston Public Market
For years, Boston’s food community has lamented the lack of a permanent, year-round food market along the lines of San Francisco’s Ferry Building Marketplace and Seattle’s Pike Place Market. It had...
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Farm-to-Table Bounty on Cape Cod
When Arrows Restaurant opened in Ogunquit, Maine in 1988, the idea of a fine-dining restaurant supplying its own fresh produce was a novelty to most New Englanders. There were small garden-centered...
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Quick and Easy Illustrated Recipes for Winter
Lauren Stein is a Boston-based journalist and author whose charming new book, Fresh Made Simple (Storey Publishing: 2015), offers bright, fun flavors combined in recipes that are so accessible and easy...
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The 20 Most New Englandy Dishes
Photo/Art by Aimee Seavey Baked Indian pudding topped the list of New England dishes in 1939. Imogene Woolcott was Yankee‘s first food editor and the first mass-media authority on New England cooking....
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