On May 11, 1659, the Massachusetts Puritans banned Christmas and ordered anyone caught celebrating to pay a fine of five shillings. That...
That little can of Underwood Deviled Ham on your grocer’s shelves represents a company that once fed the Union Army, built the...
On Dec. 24, 1706, Judge Samuel Sewall brought a Banbury cake to a sick friend in Boston. Sewall, best known as one...
Once, when people traveled by rail, there was a delicacy that you simply had to have if you could get it: the...
The Marlborough Pie once graced many a New England table during the winter holidays. It ranked up there with the pumpkin, the...
The Italian Thanksgiving in New England was and still is a piece de resistance – a masterpiece of Italian and American cooking....