Best Cook: Johnnycake and Chowder
The scents of a hot griddle and sauteed onions fill the kitchen of Barbara Stetson’s 18th-century North Scituate house. Barbara is known locally as the Johnnycake Queen, which, in a state in love with...
View ArticleBest Cook: Greek Food
Home for Max and Maria Hatziiliades is a slate-roofed brick house on a corner lot in Belmont, Massachusetts — an all-American place, but step through the front door into the kitchen and you enter...
View ArticleBest Cook: Strawberries
For four precious weeks in early summer, strawberries by the ton come up out of Maxwell’s strawberry fields, which lie across Cape Elizabeth like random quilt squares. They come by the truckload to the...
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Zucchini Muffins and Soup | Garden Recipes from the Best Cook
On any given day, the aromas of baking sweets and simmering soup seep out her kitchen door, past the henhouse, and up into the rare air of Hancock, New Hampshire. Passersby know what’s happening: Kin...
View ArticleBest Cook: Cooking with Oats
When Cheryl Wixson opens the door to her home in downtown Bangor, Maine, riffs from her stereo boom out into the cool air. She welcomes her visitor warmly, then dances down the high-ceilinged hallway...
View ArticleBest Cook: The Turnip King
Try his recipe for turnip creme brulee, yes, creme brulee, too. “I’m a foodie — I love to cook, I love to eat,” says Geoffrey Antoine, explaining how he came to win first prize in the recipe contest...
View ArticleBest Cook: Italian Pot Roast Recipe
Courtney Hunter of Jamestown, RI, Best Cook for March/April 2008, learned to cook in Italy and it shows in her exquisite crossover recipes, like Yankee Stracotto, or Italian Pot Roast (below). Read...
View ArticleBest Cook: Memorable Leftovers
When Courtney Hunter sees her friends toss out leftovers, she shudders. “This is the best part!” she cries. Courtney takes leftovers to a new high. Her friends call her cooking specialty “Yankee chic.”...
View ArticleBest Cook: One-Pan Jan
In her small, Alpine-style kitchen away from the busy streets of Center Conway, New Hampshire, Jan Duprey, a small woman with a thick braid of dark hair pulled off her face, draws a pan of roasted...
View ArticleBest Cook: Pickling Recipes
Verna Soini’s plump hands are stained red from the beets she’s peeling as she prepares her favorite relish. On the stove, jars are jostling gently in a hot-water bath. In another kettle, freshly packed...
View ArticleBest Cook: The Politics of Pork
If you ask Roger Andrey how he pronounces his name, his international past emerges. “It’s Roh-zhay Ahn-dray,” he’ll tell you. His father was born in Switzerland, but his mother’s family was Italian....
View ArticleBest Cook: World Champion Chili
Jerry Buma, the 2007 International Chili Society World’s Champion, lives in Northbridge, Massachusetts, in a house his grandfather built. He learned to cook from his grandmother. “She was a great cook,...
View ArticleBest Cook: The Queen of Pudding
Find 10 more traditional New England pudding recipes. Tinky Weisblat is sitting at her kitchen table, piled high with recipes and ingredients. With a wooden spoon, she’s creaming butter, eggs, and...
View ArticlePickle Recipe from the Best Cook
The May/June 2009 Best Cook, Ruth Feeney of Maine, shares this recipe for sour mustard pickles that was handed down from her mother. Now it has been handed to you. See below. YANKEE RECIPES: Click here...
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Blackberry Jelly | Jelly Recipe from the Best Cook
Depending on the weave, you may need to double your cheesecloth layer to trap all the berry seeds. On a warm August day, Ruth Feeney’s kitchen is fragrant with fresh blackberries. She’s making jelly...
View ArticleBest Cook: Star-Spangled Berry Pie
Helene Harbage’s fingers nimbly pick over the quart of raspberries, selecting only the plumpest, most perfect of the lot, setting each one, bottom down, to dry on a clean towel. She turns next to the...
View ArticleBest Cook: Italian Food
Teresa D’Angelo was 7 years old when the German army stormed her home village of Orsogna in Abruzzo, Italy, in 1943. She and her family fled, hiding in a cave for 13 days. Neighbors sneaked small...
View ArticleBest Cook: Cookies
Our Best Cook, Nori Odi, is preparing Christmas cookies. Her industrious kitchen in Greenfield, New Hampshire, is filled with the aroma of rich maple. Nori lives here with her husband, David Gilmore,...
View ArticleBest Cookie Recipes from the Best Cook
Nori Odoi’s Christmas Cookie Guidelines 1. Cookies should last well (shortbread stays fresh for weeks). 2. Cookies should be attractive, with different colors, shapes, flavors, and textures. 3. Honor...
View ArticleBest Cook: Meat Pie
“Moose” (Raymond) Despres had his first meat pie when he was 4 years old. That would be as soon as he could remember anything. “1944, New Year’s Eve,” he recalls. “They’d bring out the meat pies at...
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