43 Items Tagged

New England

Beach Plum Jelly

This tangy East Coast spread is becoming increasingly hard to find.

Sailors transporting ice to India on board the British troop ship <em>HMS Serapis</em>, 1875.

The British Couldn’t Take India's Heat, So They Imported Ice From New England

Sailing frozen lake water across the world was big business.

Meher Mirza September 12, 2018

Stone wall, with moss, Putney, Vermont.

New England Is Crisscrossed With Thousands of Miles of Stone Walls

That's enough to circle the globe—four times.

Anna Kusmer May 4, 2018

Corned beef, without its usual pink hue.

The Mystery of New England's Gray Corned Beef

The specialty is usually pink, but it looks different around Boston.

Anne Ewbank March 14, 2018

In-shell littleneck clams accentuate this clam pie.

Clam Apizza

New Haven's signature pie combines staples from Rhode Island and Naples.

Shad strapped to their planks by bacon seat belts.

Shad Bake

Connecticut's state fish is cooked using a special “planking” technique.

Homemade, all-natural, foraged teaberry ice cream from Park Place Café & Restaurant

Teaberry Ice Cream

This Pennsylvania specialty sometimes looks like Pepto-Bismol and smells like Bengay.

One whole election cake weighed more than 70 pounds.

Hartford Election Cake

These massive, booze-filled cakes once made voting sweet.

Switchel is also called haymaker's punch and harvest beer.

Switchel

Colonial Gatorade made from vinegar and molasses is back in style.

A homemade version made in a can and steamed in a crock pot.

Canned Bread

A New England tradition of steaming bread in coffee tins gave rise to this niche snack.

A beachside bounty from a clambake.

Clambake

An ancient cooking method still produces delicious, beachside feasts.

Maine Red Snappers hanging at Bean's Meats.

Red Snappers

The reddest of the red meat.

Rolling ready strips of sugar on snow onto popsicle sticks.

Sugar on Snow

Where maple sap flows, all one needs to make taffy is snow.

A gravy train becomes a gravy flood.

Chow Mein Sandwich

Crispy noodles meet a sea of gravy inside a hamburger bun.

A boat-shaped salt cellar, replete with sea monsters and dolphins, forged roughly between 1575 and 1600.

Salt Cellars

These embellished containers didn’t just sit pretty on the table; they determined social standing.

In Maine, Allen's Coffee Brandy is more than twice as popular as the next-most popular spirit.

Allen's Coffee Brandy

Maine's top-selling spirit that almost no one else drinks.

"The kid's got moxie!"

Moxie

This cure-all-turned-soda once outsold Coca-Cola.

The making of a Fluffernutter.

The Fluffernutter

A completely delicious, nearly nutrient-free sandwich beloved by generations of New Englanders.