Cooking Advice

Do you know how to use sugar pumpkins? Here are a few ideas!

Our food editor, Amy Traverso, writes about the versatile condiment she can’t get enough of right now.

Our New England oyster guide will help you find the best oysters to suit your needs and please your taste buds.

Once you learn how to make perfect scrambled eggs the right way, you’ll find new admiration for the humble breakfast dish.

‘Tis the season for apple pie! Make sure yours doesn’t fall flat with these picks for the best apples for apple pie.

A heaping tray of steamed clams with bowls of broth and butter dipping is a sure sign of summer in New England. Here are some tips on how to cook steamers.

Cooking lobster may seem intimidating, but you can get the hang of it in no time. Perfect this favorite summer meal with our easy lobster cooking tips.

Looking to break free from burgers? Here’s how to grill swordfish, plus a delicious recipe for Grilled Swordfish with Tomato and Sweet Pepper Salsa.

Learn how to cook lobster that tastes perfect every time with these tips from the late Bertha Nunan, one of Maine’s most famous lobster cooks.

Make the most of fiddleheads, spring’s most ephemeral vegetable, in this simple sautéed fiddleheads recipe.

Yankee Magazine’s first food editor chose these recipes as the 20 “most typical” New England dishes back in 1939. Do her selections ring true today?

Can you freeze shrimp? Of course, but the methods for how to freeze raw shrimp and how to freeze cooked shrimp are different. Learn how to freeze shrimp.