Weekends with Yankee

This week, host Richard Wiese embarks on a winter adventure with Registered Maine Guide Polly Mahoney and her Yukon huskies. In Massachusetts, host and Yankee senior editor Amy Traverso meets up with food writer David Leite at Fall River’s Portugalia market to make Portuguese clams & sausage. In Maine, we explore an increasingly popular part of the state’s winter outdoor scene: fat-tire biking.

This week, host and Yankee senior editor Amy Traverso is in New Hampshire to meet Mary Ann Esposito, host of the longest-running cooking series in television history. Together they bake up a gorgeous Swiss chard tart. In Vermont, we meet Bethanie Farrell to hear the story behind The Giving Fridge in Middlebury. Host Richard Wiese travels to Maine to meet artist and designer Sara Fitz.

This week, host and Yankee senior editor Amy Traverso meets Maine farmers who are preserving delicious heirloom bean varieties, then cooks a fresh take on baked beans with author Joe Yonan. Next, we travel to New Hampshire, to meet Ben Kilham, who rescues and rehabilitates orphaned bear cubs. Finally, host Richard Wiese is in Portland to discover how Sea Bags is giving new life to old sails.

This week, host Richard Wiese is in Vermont to meet Tammy White at Wing & A Prayer Farm and learn how she turns wool into beautiful yarn. Host and Yankee senior food editor Amy Traverso visits baker Ahmad Aissa, who is bringing the flavors of his native Syria to his home in New Hampshire. Finally, we visit the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen Fair to check out some of the state’s finest crafts.

Co-hosts Amy Traverso & Richard Wiese reunite for a road trip through the White Mountains of New Hampshire to check out the spectacular fall foliage. Then, we head to Boston for launch day of the city’s Swan Boats, guided by the fourth generation of the family that’s run the business since 1877. Our last stop is at the annual Kneading Conference in Maine, to meet some of the country’s top bakers.

This week, host Richard Wiese takes a midcoast Maine road trip in a camper van and enjoys some kayaking, cooking, and hiking along the way. On a perfect fall day, host and Yankee senior food editor Amy Traverso visits the orchards at Gould Hill Farm in New Hampshire. With the owners, Amy makes a classic apple crisp and cider doughnuts, and tastes some of the hard ciders produced at the farm.

This week, host and Yankee senior food editor Amy Traverso travels to the Mashpee Wampanoag tribal lands on Cape Cod to meet chef Sherry Pocknett, the first indigenous woman to win a James Beard Award. They enjoy a tasty squash soup in the tribe’s wetu. Host Richard Wiese takes a bike tour along the New Hampshire Seacoast, and Yankee editor Ian Aldrich visits the Ben & Jerry’s factory in Vermont.

This week, host Richard Wiese is in New Hampshire to learn about the historic Omni Mount Washington Resort and its many fall activities, from zipline canopy tours to golfing. Host and Yankee senior editor Amy Traverso heads to Maine, where she learns how to row a dory on Belfast Bay, then visits the hottest addition to Belfast’s Main Street, Dos Gatos Gastropub, for tequila drinks and tacos.

This week, host and Yankee senior food editor Amy Traverso heads to the Alna Store in Maine to meet the people who transformed this former gas station into a destination restaurant. Later, Amy checks into a Maine houseboat rental and cooks a cozy soup. Host Richard Wiese joins vegan chef Chrissy Tracey in Connecticut to forage for produce and cook with their finds at the Madison Beach Hotel.

This week, host Richard Wiese meets the scientists at Cape Cod’s Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to learn about the deep-sea research submersible, the Alvin. He also joins the Old Ladies Against Underwater Garbage on a clean-up mission of Cape ponds. Host and Yankee senior editor Amy Traverso meets up with chef Michael Serpa to explore the clam shacks of Massachusetts’s North Shore by bike.

This week, host and Yankee senior editor Amy Traverso visits Rhode Island’s Castle Hill Inn to experience its famous clambake and tour Newport’s iconic harbor. At Sweet Berry Farm, Amy arranges flowers picked fresh from the fields. Host Richard Wiese explores autumn in Stowe, Vermont, from the Lodge at Spruce Peak, taking in peak fall foliage on horseback and fly fishing on the Lamoille River.

This week, host Richard Wiese visits Golden Dog Farm in Vermont, where the owners’ motto, “Happiness is golden,” applies to everything from their wine and syrup to their pack of golden retrievers. Host and Yankee senior food editor Amy Traverso experiences the lavender harvest at Pumpkin Blossom Farm in New Hampshire, making lavender wreaths and sampling flower-infused treats.