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Food in New Hampshire
Food in New England Editor’s Favorites New Hampshire
New Hampshire Offers a Spectrum of Foods, from Deluxe Restaurants to Penny Candy
People who love to travel also are often the same people who cherish good food. On any vacation trip, the question soon arises: where can we find a good restaurant? New England’s variety of farms, forest, and sea life and its history of innovation make it a wonderful place to taste regional foods. Food tourism can mean many activities in addition to dining. New Hampshire offers the luxury of the Grand Hotels as well as gourmet food stores, nostalgic penny candy, cooking classes, and family-oriented food festivals. Below are some Editor’s Favorites; check back for frequent updates.
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Appetite Meets Ivy League at this Place of Good Taste
The food at the Canoe Club in Hanover is every bit as varied, experimental, and filling as you would expect in an ivy-league university town. The late-night menu, full bar, and nearness to Dartmouth University ensures that this places hops with good conversation and hearty appetites (example from the late night menu: Red Hen raisin Walnut bread, Vermont honeycomb, fig almond tart). The clincher is the almost-nightly live music, ranging through many genres but mainly focusing on jazz and folk. The seasonal menu offers lots of favorites, among them is the Prince Edward Island mussels served with fries. The more adventurous among you can go first, though, when it’s time to try the chocolate martinis. Phone: 603-643-9660.
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Beans & Greens Are Only the Start of this Farm’s Treasures and Pleasures
Beans & Greens in Gilford opens with a blast of vigor and plenty of spring flowers at the start of May, and stays open through the last pumpkin of autumn. Operated by the Howe family, this busy farm, located within a mile of the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee, offers a wide range of products. The farm is open daily, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., for a season that begins with the strawberry harvest and continues with produce, cut flowers, herbs, and autumn squashes. There is a petting area with farm animals, an observation beehive, hayrides, and a corn maze beginning in August. The farm stand is located in a historic post-and-beam barn that was built in 1838. This is a fun, historic, and stomach-satisfying trip for all ages. Phone: 603-293-2853.
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Bid Farewell to Hunger and Stress at This Streetside Eatery
One of the grand old denizens of the city of Keene is the E.F. Lane Hotel, located on a traditional New England main street of century-old brick buildings, a center park, and a white steepled church. The E.F. Lane’s restaurant, Salmon Chase, is a true bistro: relaxed atmosphere, old-fashioned charm with lots of exposed brick and turn-of-the-century decorative touches, sidewalk dining in season, and large windows looking out onto the bustle of Main Street. The menu of traditional and contemporary American food offers something for everyone, with many local ingredients such as Annie's Preserves, local maple syrup, and local produce in season. A wide range of beers includes British ales and a selection of New Hampshire and Vermont brews like Long Trail, Magic Hat, and Smuttynose. Phone: 603-357-7070.
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Conde Nast Gives Balsams a Perfect Score
A 15,000-acre resort set high in New Hampshire's White Mountains, the Balsams Grand Resort in Dixville Notch offers a spectacular setting and activities all year. Excellent dining is consistently named as one of the most popular guest activities. White linens, sterling utensils, heavy mahogany furniture, waiters donned in bowties and gold paisley vests set the stage for the main attraction, which is the exceptional food and drink. The resort has been included in the 2007 Conde Nast Gold List, which represents the top 700 hotels and resorts in the world. The Balsams is one of only several hotels in the entire United States that received a perfect score of 100 percent for its food from Conde Nast. If you would like to experience the best of the best in the culinary world, a visit to the Balsams Grand Resort dining room should be on your culinary to-do list. Phone: 877-225-7267.
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Home-Grown Vegetables and Local Seafood Leap Off the Menu
Portsmouth restaurant owners are becoming more and more inspired to create masterpieces using ingredients from the bounty of the sea caught just outside their doors and from the local farms just over the hills. The cuisine of Ben Hasty, chef at The Dunaway Restaurant at Strawbery Banke, has been receiving recognition and prestigious awards, including the Best of New England 2007 and Yankee Editors' Choice 2007. This chef, a former farmer from Maine, and his staff use the fish, fowl, vegetables, fruits, and herbs produced within a few miles of Portsmouth. In season they also include the herbs, fruits, and vegetables that they grow in their own kitchen garden. This restaurant is considered to be a hot spot so be sure to make reservations before heading over for your culinary delights. Phone: 603-373-6112.
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Learn to Cook a New Creation in an Evening
If you are looking to perfect your cooking skills or maybe just learn some new tricks from seasoned professionals you may enjoy taking one of the many cooking classes offered at the McIntosh College in Dover, home to L’Esprit restaurant. Located in the Seacoast region, just north of Portsmouth, McIntosh College offers classes in the evenings from 6 to 9:30 p.m. With a little advance planning, the one-session classes are easy to fit into a vacation trip. The classes are taught by faculty who bring varied, long-term experience and expertise to their teaching. These classes are designed to be a hands-on learning experience and are open to people of all cooking experience levels. Students are encouraged to ask questions and to discover their passion for food and cooking. Artisan breads, soups, recipes with cheese, and creating a plant-based diet are just a sampling of some forthcoming class offerings. Classes are held at Atlantic Culinary Academy in Dover. Phone: 888-268-2777.
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Macaroons in the French Tradition Means More Almonds
A classic French almond macaroon might be a different taste adventure than what you expect (for one thing, ingredients don’t include coconut). These sweet delights are made by hand by the Price family, operators of St. Julien Macaroons at White Oaks Farm in Sandown. The French recipe dates back to the 1600s and the Price bakers stick to it religiously. Ingredients are crushed almonds, egg white, sugar and honey — no coconut, flour, shortening, salt, egg yolk, leavening or artificial preservatives. The egg white is kosher, and the absence of cholesterol, lactose, and gluten make the macaroons appropriate for many special diets. Don’t crumble at the price of these macaroons; almonds are expensive and only the finest ingredients are used. If you can stop by the shop in person, the almond-scented aroma will greet you before you open the door. The company also operates a mail-order service. Phone: 603-887-2233.
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Marketplace Presents an Array of Fine Food (Even for Your Dog)
If you are traveling in the Seacoast area be sure to stop into the Durham Marketplace for a trove of enticing fresh and prepared foods, many of them locally grown. This unique grocery store has a large selection of locally produced and organic food items, popular wines, an exclusive selection of Champagnes, and one of the best specialty food selections in New England. The prepared meals in the form of platters, like the Crab Claws and Dip Platter and the Gourmet Meat Platter, are works of art to the eye. Fresh seafood and meats are abundant, and the marketplace has a wide range of gift baskets with themes such as "Pepper-Head" with hot sauces and salsas, and "Laundry Baskets” for college students. Don’t hold back from taking home some of New Hampshire-made hot sauces, salsas, spices, trail mix, local honey or doggie treats. Phone: 603-868-2500.
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New England Diners

New England diners offer no-frills food, from corned beef hash to Boston cream pie
Authentic diners and traditional diner food are alive and sizzling in every corner of New England. From the outside, diners mark their territory with their characteristic barrel roofs, neon lighting, and fringe of cars and trucks with local license tags. Inside, counter stools and booths are packed with families craving hash browns, meat loaf, home made pie and other diner staples.
New England is the birthplace of the diner. In 1872, a pressman at the Providence Journal newspaper began to sell prepared food from a horse-drawn wagon outside the Journal building. Next, companies were founded to manufacture and sell “lunch wagons” with interior seating. Then others began buying old horse-drawn streetcars and converting them to diners. By the 1930s, diners began to adopt a more streamlined, railroad-car appearance. In the 1950s, diners began to lose customers to new fast-food establishments, but a diner revival began in the late 1970s. Hot spots for diner history also include Worcester, Massachusetts, home of the prolific Worcester Lunch Car Company.
The Web site www.dinercity.com has extensive listings of diners by state. Here are some highlights in New England:
 Connecticut
Collin's Diner
Route 44, RR Square
Canaan, Connecticut
Phone: 860-774-1837
Notable: National Historic Landmark built in 1941. Open 7 days a week.
Curley's Diner
62 West Park Place
Stamford, Connecticut
Phone: 203-348-2020
Notable: Open 24 hours, near university, low prices, breakfast served day and night. Specialties are cheeseburgers and chocolate shakes.
Eggs Up Diner
1462 Portland Cobalt Road
Portland, Connecticut
Phone: 860-342-4968
Notable: Southern Eggs Benedict includes sausage gravy, a biscuit, and country ham. Really good food and service.
Norm’s Diner
171 Bridge Street
Groton, Connecticut
Phone: 860-445-5026
Notable: Popular with the locals, open 24/7. Great diner authenticity.
Olympia Diner
3414 Berlin Turnpike
Newington, Connecticut
Phone: 860-666-9948
Notable: 1950’s atmosphere with great neon lights. Great meatloaf and Olympian breakfast. Open daily until midnight.
O'Rourke's
728 Main Street
Middletown, Connecticut
Phone: 860-346-6101
Notable: Special dishes are the steamed cheeseburger — a Connecticut passion — 3-way chili “Seeley style” (named for the diner’s most devoted patron), and the tuna smelt.
Parkway Diner
1066 High Ridge Road
Stamford, CT,
Phone: 203-329-9511
Notable: Platter specials with big portions.
Quaker Diner
319 Park Road
West Hartford, Connecticut
Phone: 860-232-5523
Notable: Best breakfast in the world. Friendly people and great 1930s atmosphere. Super busy on Sundays after church.
 Maine
A1 Diner
3 Bridge Street
Gardiner, Maine
Phone: 207-582-5586
Notable: This Worcester Diner arrived by truck in Gardiner in 1946. Flaky biscuits, grilled sandwiches and burgers are still favorites.
Brunswick Diner
101 1/2 Pleasant Street
Brunswick, Maine
Phone: 207-729-5948
Notable: This diner was a vintage Worcester Lunch Car that has gone under many renovations but has kept its charm and originality. Hot turkey sandwiches, breakfast at any time and thick frappes (milkshakes) are all good. Step up into the booths and play the Old Elvis songs on the juke box.
Becky's Diner
390 Commercial Street
Portland, Maine
Phone: 207-773-7070
Notable: Located right on Hobson's Wharf in the Old Port in Portland. Great breakfasts every time. Open 4 a.m. to 9 p.m. seven days a week.
Maine Diner
2265 Post Road
Wells, Maine
Phone: 207-646-4441
Notable: Served its four millionth customer in fall 2005.
Moody’s Diner
U.S. Route 1
Waldoboro, Maine
Phone: 207-832-7785
Notable: The blueberry muffins won a gold medal from the Culinary Hall of Fame and Gourmet magazine has requested the recipe for the world-famous walnut pie.
Miss Portland Diner
49 Marginal Way
Portland, Maine
Phone: 207-773-3246
Notable: The diner appeared in the Mel Gibson film “Man Without a Face.” It is an original 1949 Worcester diner filled with Art Deco influence and lots of families.
Palace Diner
18 Franklin Street
Biddeford, Maine
Phone: 207 282-6468
Notable: A landmark 15-stool diner 1926 Pollard diner where mayors and mill workers have eaten side by side for almost 80 years.
 Massachusetts
Al Mac’s Diner
135 President Avenue
Fall River, Massachusetts
Phone: 508-679-5851
Notable: Slogan is "Justly Famous Since 1910." Built in 1954 by the DeRaffle Manufacturing Company of New Rochelle, New York.
Arthur's Paradise Diner
112 Bridge Street
Lowell, Massachusetts
Phone: 978-452-8647
Notable: Authentic Worcester Diner car, circa 1937. A favorite item is the Double Meat Boot Mill Sandwich, with egg, home fries, cheese and bacon on a grilled roll, is a real stick-to-your-ribs breakfast.
Agawam Diner
Route 1 and 133
Rowley, Massachusetts
Phone: 978-948-7780
Notable: Tiny chrome diner with red vinyl seats. Hamburger plates, grilled cheese sandwiches, beef stew and terrific pies. Great prices too.
Blue Bonnet Dinner
324 King Street
Northampton, Massachusetts
Phone: 413-584-3333
Notable: “Has to be one of the best diners in New England.” Daily specials.
Boulevard Diner
155 Shrewbury Street
Worcester, Massachusetts
Phone: 508-791-4535
Notable: A classic Worcester Lunch Car with the wooden interior and wooden booths. Fluffy omelets, cheese steaks, and Brazilian-style hamburgers.
Deluxe Town Diner
627 Mount Auburn Street
Watertown, Massachusetts
Phone: 617-926-8400
Notable: Great breakfast. Many healthy choice meals. Classic dishes and unique desserts every day. Sweet potato pancakes with real Massachusetts maple syrup.
Morgan Square Diner
6 Myrtle Avenue
Fitchburg, Massachusetts
Phone: 978-343-9549
Notable: Manufactured in 1941 by the Worcester Lunch Car Company, with porcelain exterior, hardwood interior, beautiful Gothic lettering.
Miss Florence Diner
99 Main Street
Florence, Massachusetts
Phone: 413-584-3137
Notable: Classic techno-fifties diner with large portions of good food. Table juke-boxes to entertain. Pancakes are terrific.
Salem Diner
326 Canal Street
Salem, Massachusetts
Phone: 978-471-7918
Notable: This Sterling Streamliner was built by the J.B. Judkins Company in 1941 and has occupied a small lot at 326 Canal Street for nearly 60 years.
 New Hampshire
Littleton Diner
145 Main Street
Littleton, New Hampshire
Phone: 603-444-3994
Notable: Traditional New England home-cooked food. Great cheeseburgers, French fries, meat loaf, and corned beef hash.
Plain Jane's Diner
Route 25
Rumney, New Hampshire
Phone: 603-786-2525
Notable: This beautiful 1954 O’Mahoney sits in the middle of nowhere, on a long stretch of mostly deserted but highly traveled mountain highway. A tasteful and tasty experience.
Peterborough Diner
10 Depot Street
Peterborough, New Hampshire
Phone: 603-924-6202
Notable: The Boston cream pie is out-of-this-world great.
Sunny Day Diner
Connector Road
Lincoln, NH
Phone: 603-745-4833
Notable: Beautifully restored diner made by the Master Company of Pequannock, NJ in 1958. The owner-chef is a Culinary Institute of America graduate. Everything is delicious and prepared from scratch. Don’t leave without having a piece of pie.
The Red Arrow Diner
61 Lowell Street
Manchester, New Hampshire
603-626-1118
Notable: Slogan: “We really serve it on a blue plate,” the diner says of its Blue Plate Specials.
The Tilt'n Diner
Exit 20 off Route 93
Tilton, New Hampshire
Phone: 603-286-2204
Notable: Slogan: “Think ‘Happy Days’ in New Hampshire”
Rhode Island
Haven Brothers
Parking space next to City Hall
Providence, Rhode Island
Notable: This historic figure is towed every night to the edge of Kennedy Plaza next to City Hall, this classic stainless-steel diner serves up food all night long to club goers, bikers, and other wanderers. Two barstool-style seats at a short counter are the only indoor seating. Outdoor annex seating is the front steps of City Hall.
Seaplane Diner
307 Allen Ave. at Mural Street
Providence, Rhode Island
Phone: 401-941-9547
Notable: A true mobile diner in every sense of the word. Many hidden surprises and nuances in their menu offerings. The service is terrific.
Jigger’s
145 Main St.
East Greenwich, Rhode Island
Phone: 401-884-5388
Notable: The best Johnny cakes (cornmeal pancakes) on the planet, according to aficionados.
Bishop's 4th Street Diner
184 Admiral Kalbfus Road
Newport, Rhode Island
401-847-2069
Notable: Thin and crispy Johnnycakes and biscuits and gravy that are not to be missed. Try the Portuguese sweet bread. Service is great and prices are what you want from a diner.
Modern Diner
364 East Ave
Pawtucket, RI 02860
Phone: 401- 726-8390
Notable: 1941 Streamliner Diner. First diner to be listed on the National Registry of Historic Places. Cash only. Hearty breakfasts and great meatloaf.
 Vermont
Blue Benn Diner
314 North Street
Bennington, VT
Phone: 802-442-5140
Notable: Authentic diner. Specialties include turkey hash, breakfast burritos, all sorts of pancakes and lots of vegetarian options. Local people rate it as the best diner in the country.
Chelsea Royal Diner
Route 9 West
Brattleboro, Vermont
Notable: 1938 Worcester Diner with breakfast and dinner specials and three or four blue plate dinners every day.
Farmers Diner
5573 Woodstock Road (Route 4)
Quechee, Vermont
Phone: 802-295-4600
Notable: Everything on the menu is from local farmers.
Miss Bellows Falls Diner
90 Rockingham
Bellows Falls, Vermont
Phone: 802-463-9800
Notable: Built in the 1920s by the Worcester Lunch Car Company, Vermont's only surviving barrel-roofed diner was moved here from Massachusetts in 1942. Look for part of an earlier name painted on the back.
Putney Diner
Main Street
Putney, Vermont
Phone: 802-387-5433
Notable: Serving classic Vermont cooking with a few surprises, like the Cajun Skillet Breakfast, a short, tasty trip from sugar maple forests to the Gulf Coast bayous. Also displays the work of local artists.
T.J. Buckley’s Uptown Dining
132 Elliot Street
Brattleboro, Vermont
Phone: 802-257-4922
Notable: T.J. Buckley's Uptown Dining Some say this is a Worcester from the 1920s; others claim it is a converted. Unusually tiny in size, with two seatings per night.
Yankee Diner
Quechee Village, Route 4
Quechee, Vermont
Phone: 802-296-7911
Notable: a beautifully restored 1946 Worcester Streamliner.
Diner Slang
Cup of Joe or Java -- cup of coffee
Adam and Eve on a Raft -- two eggs on toast
Soup jockey – waitress
Sun kiss -- orange juice
Baby juice -- glass of milk
Life preservers – donuts
Blowout patches with Vermont – pancakes with maple syrup
Wreck ’em -- scrambled eggs
Shingle with a shimmy and a shake -- toast with jelly
Burn the British -- toasted English muffin
Sweep the kitchen or Clean up the kitchen -- a plate of hash
Noah’s boy on bread – a ham sandwich
Cow paste – butter
Dog soup – glass of water
M.D. – Dr. Pepper
Mike and Ike – salt and pepper shakers
Sea dust – salt
And, to order a hamburger with lettuce, tomato, and onion, your waitress may tell the cook to “burn one, drag it through the garden, and pin a rose on it.”
Web Sites
American Diner Museum
i Love Diners.com
Diner City
Diner Reading
Lost Diners and Roadside Restaurants of New England and New York, Will Anderson, 2001.
American Diner, Richard Gutman, 1979.
Diners: People and Places, Gerd Kittel, 1990.
Blue Plate Specials and Blue Ribbon Chefs: The Heart and Soul of America's Great Roadside Restaurants, Jane Stern, 2001.
Greasy Spoon. A quarterly periodical.
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New England Foods
New England cookery combines the older English methods of steaming and boiling with ingredients familiar to Native Americans, like corn, game, shellfish, potatoes, cranberries, maple syrup, and cornmeal. New England has meager and rocky soil but it has a bounty of fish — especially cod — and shellfish, including clams, oysters, and lobster. Boston baked beans, which became a Saturday supper staple because of the Puritans’ Sabbath rules, cranberry dishes of all kinds, and maple syrup and candy have all found a place in the American palate through New England. |
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Clambake
The New England clambake is both a meal and an outdoor construction project. The work begins with cooks assembling the ingredients (lobsters, whole fish, ears of corn, clams, mussels, red bliss potatoes, and onions) and cooking gear (firewood, charcoal, stones, seaweed, tarps, and shovels). The crew begins by digging a hole – preferably on the beach -- and lining it with stones, wood, and charcoal. Essentially, they are creating a below-ground bonfire and heating the rocks to create a steam bath for the food. When the wood has burned down to ash, saturated seaweed is laid over the hot rocks, creating a pit of steam. Small packets of seafood, corn, and potatoes wrapped in wet cheesecloth are laid on top of the seaweed. The food packets are covered with more seaweed, and the whole pit is covered with a tarp for up to about two hours. At the end of the cooking time, the food is unearthed and served with lots of drawn butter and compliments for the cooks. |
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Lobster
A New England lobster feast is no place for the shy or faint of heart. It takes work and skill to bust open the exoskeleton of the bright-orange, spiny beast, but the delicate taste of the lobster meat, dipped in drawn butter, is well worth the effort. The most popular variety in the United States is the Maine lobster. It has five pairs of legs; the first pair is large, heavy claws that contain a good amount of meat. The other meat-rich portion of the animal is its tail. Boiled lobster is served with a bib, drawn butter, a cracking tool, and a narrow fork for easing the meat out of the broken shell. |
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Cod
Cape Cod, the sand-scoured curl of land extending from Massachusetts into the Atlantic, didn’t get its name for nothing. Cod is New England’s fish, a white, lean, firm and mild-tasting meat. Cod and scrod (the name for young cod and haddock) can be baked, broiled, poached and fried. Whole fish, which can range in weight from one-and-a-half to 100 pounds, can be stuffed. Cod cheeks and tongues are a local delicacy. |
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Clam Chowder
Clam chowder has many varieties, and each has its loyal following. One three-way division of clam chowders is New England clam chowder, with a creamy broth; Rhode Island clam chowder, with a clear broth; and Manhattan clam chowder, with a tomato-based broth. The chowders made by early settlers used salt pork and biscuits. Today chowder cooks discard the biscuits, but often sprinkle crackers on top of the chowder. Clams, hard or soft, are the basis of the most common chowders, but other types of fish are often used, depending on the season and the catch. According to “50 Chowders” by Jasper White, the oldest known fish chowder recipe in print appeared in the Boston Evening Post on September 23, 1751. |
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Cranberries
Shiny, scarlet cranberries have a bigger job than just looking beautiful on the Thanksgiving dinner table. They grow wild but also are extensively cultivated in huge, sandy bogs, mostly in Massachusetts. The peak period to buy and use fresh cranberries is October through December. Apart from cranberry sauce, this fruit makes delicious chutneys, pies, and cobblers. Because they are sour, cranberries are best combined with other fruits, such as apples or dried apricots. |
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Maple Sugar
The maple forests of northern New England do more than cover the hills with blankets of gold every fall. In later winter – February to March — the combination of freezing nights and warmer days causes sap in the maple trees to begin to move. The Indians collected sap by making slashes in the tree trunks. Early European settlers in New England at first copied the Indians’ sap-collection methods, but by 1800 they began harvesting the sap by drilling a small hole in the tree and inserting a tube made from a hollowed twig. In the early years, maple sap was boiled down and made into maple sugar, not syrup, because it was easier to store the dried and hardened sugar. Early makers of maple products boiled sap in iron kettles hanging over an open fire. This process evaporated water out of the sap, leaving the essential syrup. When it was thickened, the syrup was stirred until it began to crystallize, and then poured into molds. Today, during March and April, hundreds of sugar houses all over New England welcome visitors to watch the process and taste the fruits of the maple tree. |
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Boston Baked Beans
The short definition of Boston baked beans is dried navy beans baked slowly with molasses and salt pork. The early colonists learned to cook dried beans from the American Indians, who would dig pits in the earth and slow-cook beans with maple sugar and bear fat. This dish evolved into baked beans with salt pork and molasses. It was traditionally served on Saturday nights in Colonial times. The Puritan Sabbath — when no cooking could be done — ran from sundown Saturday to sundown on Sunday. Puritan wives baked beans in brick ovens on Saturday for that night’s supper. The leftovers were still warm when the family returned from church Sunday morning. |
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New England Boiled Dinner
This dinner, with roots in Ireland, is a one-pot meal native to New England that contains various ingredients, but primarily corned beef, cabbage, carrots, turnips, and potatoes. These ingredients, along with seasonings, are added at various times during cooking and slowly simmered together to create a hearty one-pot meal. Common condiments include horse radish, mustard, and vinegar. The dish is representative of the cultural heritage of the region, notably that of the Irish. |
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New England is Apple Country
Apple growing has found a fertile home in rocky soils, long, hot summers, and crisp fall days of New England. The New England apple industry is still largely family-owned and orchards are an important community resource. Many growers offer pick-your-own sales and farm stands that sell homemade apple butter, applesauce, pies, and other treats. Among the other treats is apple cider -- fermented (“hard”) or non-fermented. Until the mid-1800s, hard cider was the most popular beverage in North America because apples were plentiful; it was cheap to make; and, unlike milk, it would not go bad. All the colonists, young and old, drank hard cider at all types of family and church occasions. |
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No Longer Candy Counter Exists Anywhere (Guinness Says)
Littleton, a little town with a warm, inviting Main Street, is home to Chutters, a general store that is reported to have appeared in the dreams of candy lovers. The central feature of Chutters is a counter loaded with an incredible amount of sweet and sour, tasty, old-fashioned and unusual types of candy. Measuring just a quarter inch shorter than 112 feet and holding 800 jars of treats, this candy counter has been certified by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest candy counter on Earth. You may not be able to try all the candy in one visit but you can get started on your claim to being the first person to have eaten a piece of every candy offered there. Taffy, caramels, Mary Janes, Pixy Stix, bottle caps, licorice twists, rock candy and so much more can be found at Chutters. Phone: 603-444-5787.
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Stonewall Kitchen
10 Pleasant Street
Portsmouth, NH 03801 
Toll-Free: 800-207-JAMS
Email: info@stonewallkitchen.com
Stonewall Kitchen, Creators of Specialty Foods, respected and honored for our award-winning product line since the early days at the Farmers’ Market. Walking into our Company Stores, you are taken back to a simpler time with tin ceilings, schoolhouse lights, wainscoting and the aroma of good food simmering on the stove. Browse through our Company Stores and sample our specialty foods including: preserves, mustards, dessert toppings, grille sauces and more. Also find distinctive serviceware, linens, cookware and home décor. Stonewall Kitchen, a visit that will long be remembered. Company Store Locations: South Windsor, Connecticut *Avon, Connecticut * York, Maine * Portland, Maine * Camden, Maine * Portsmouth, New Hampshire * Rochester, New Hampshire * North Conway, New Hampshire. Please visit stonewallkitchen.com for more information and store directions.
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Stonewall Kitchen
Settlers’ Green Route 16
North Conway, NH 03860 
Toll-Free: 800-207-JAMS
Email: info@stonewallkitchen.com
Stonewall Kitchen, Creators of Specialty Foods, respected and honored for our award-winning product line since the early days at the Farmers’ Market. Walking into our Company Stores, you are taken back to a simpler time with tin ceilings, schoolhouse lights, wainscoting and the aroma of good food simmering on the stove. Browse through our Company Stores and sample our specialty foods including: preserves, mustards, dessert toppings, grille sauces and more. Also find distinctive serviceware, linens, cookware and home décor. Stonewall Kitchen, a visit that will long be remembered. Company Store Locations: South Windsor, Connecticut *Avon, Connecticut * York, Maine * Portland, Maine * Camden, Maine * Portsmouth, New Hampshire * Rochester, New Hampshire * North Conway, New Hampshire. Please visit stonewallkitchen.com for more information and store directions.
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Sugar-Free Baked Goods Satisfy Any Sweet Tooth
People who love sweets but cannot eat sugar, take heart. Chatila's Sugar Free Bakery in Salem has conducted extensive research to create extraordinary products that taste great and are good for your body. This business pairs the best ingredients with exceptional recipes to create products that are sugar-free, gluten-free, low sodium, low fat, or kosher dairy-certified. Breads, bagels, pies, cakes, cheesecakes, pastries, muffins, doughnuts and chocolates are available. The bakery’s New Generation Muffins are made with organic almond meal flour; bagels are baked not boiled with very low sodium and there’s no yeast added; the fine Belgium chocolates are sugar-free; and the rich, creamy cheesecakes are sugar-free and gluten-free. Chatila’s is open daily. Phone: 877-619-5398.
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