Edie Clark

Articles by Edie Clark

Travel → Vermont: The Green Mountain State →

Weekend: Arlington, Vermont

Top Five → Top Five Travel →

Stamped Mail

Hearing from my readers

SeeNewEngland.com → Yankee Articles →

Weekend: Arlington, Vermont

Best Cook: World Champion Chili

Jerry Buma, New England's first world champion chili maker

Best Cook: Star-Spangled Berry Pie

Made with fresh berries and white chocolate stars

Best Cook: Hazel's Food

Jamaica's spicy air is never far from the Odells' kitchen in Newburyport, Massachusetts.

Mary's Farm: Not My Grandmother's Paperwhites

Mary's Farm: The Most Important Building in Town

Lyme Disease: One Woman's Journey

Resources and tips to protect yourself and pets

Best Cook: Golden Challah Bread

Festive Shabbat meals begin with tender, golden challah bread.

Pictures → Slideshows →

Tips for Home Chiliheads

Issues → January/February 2012 →

Mary's Farm: Waking the Dead

Best Cook: Golden Challah Bread

Festive Shabbat meals begin with tender, golden challah bread.

39. Winter Wave Parties

Issues → November/December 2011 →

Mary's Farm: In Search of Whales

Issues → September/October 2011 →

Mary's Farm: The House That Benjamin Mason Built

Issues → July/August 2011 →

Mary's Farm: With a Little Luck

Home: The Evolution of Bachelor Hall

The Treasures of 'Jilly's Jubilee'

The Bullpen: a post-and-beam barn

Best Cook: Coronation Chicken and Summer Pudding

Issues → May/June 2011 →

Mary's Farm: From the Ashes

Best Cook: Downriver Picnics

Laurie Lufkin

Issues → March/April 2011 →

Mary's Farm: The Most Important Building in Town

Best Cook: Maple Syrup Recipes

For Marcia Maynard, cooking with maple is a way of life.

Issues → January/February 2011 →

Best Cook: Portuguese Kale Soup

Ruth O'Donnell's kale soup has nourished generations of her Provincetown family and friends.

Mary's Farm: Not My Grandmother's Paperwhites

Issues → November/December 2010 →

Mary's Farm: Santa's Home

Greenfield, MA: Scale Model Town in His Backyard

Issues → September/October 2010 →

Mary's Farm: Jazz Night

Best Cook In Town: To Be a Locavore

When Beth Richardson learned how to preserve the bounty from her Maine garden, eating locally became a year-round passion.

Issues → July/August 2010 →

Mary's Farm: Red Is the Color

Best Cook: Hazel's Food

Jamaica's spicy air is never far from the Odells' kitchen in Newburyport, Massachusetts.

Issues → May/June 2010 →

Mary's Farm: High School Reunion

A return to the 'Old Country,' even if it's New Jersey

Lincoln, NH: Clark's Trading Post

Bear show is entertainment and a way of life

Issues → March/April 2010 →

Mary's Farm: Early Spring

Color in the spring landscape

Best Cook: The Cake Lady

Ruth Shackford's cakes mark special occasions for generations

Tips for Home Chiliheads

Issues → January/February 2010 →

Best Cook: Meat Pie

French Canadian meat pies are a family legacy

Roxanne Quimby: Controversy in Maine

Classic: The Killing of Karen Wood

Mary's Farm: February Secrets

19 birthdays in one month

Issues → November/December 2009 →

Mary's Farm: The Ice Storm

Living without power

Best Cook: Cookies

600 cookbooks and a passion for new cuisines

Issues → September/October 2009 →

Mary's Farm: Painter Albert Quigley

Legacy of a Nelson artist

Best Cook: Italian Food

Recipe for cheese balls in tomato sauce

Mary's Farm: In Search of Whales

Issues → July/August 2009 →

CLASSIC: Turtles Studies by David Carroll

Best Cook: Star-Spangled Berry Pie

Made with fresh berries and white chocolate stars

Mary's Farm: Fireworks

Warlike sounds for the birth of a nation

United States/Canada Border

Multimillion-dollar stations on the "friendliest border"

Issues → May/June 2009 →

Mary's Farm: A Room Becomes Paradise

Moving into the home office

Best Cook: Blackberry Jelly

Ruth Feeney's recipe for blackberries

Issues → March/April 2009 →

United States/Canada Border

Multimillion-dollar stations on the "friendliest border"

Best Cook: The Queen of Pudding

Pudding recipes and a contest

Mark Fidrych Remembered (8/14/54-4/13/09)

Pitching ace retired to New England farm

Issues → January/February 2009 →

Mary's Farm: How to Get Through Winter

Find more wood or go to Florida

Best Cook: World Champion Chili

Jerry Buma, New England's first world champion chili maker

Mary's Farm: Waking the Dead

Issues → November/December 2008 →

Mary's Farm: Fruitcake Weather

And a recipe for a fruitcake you'll love, honest!

Best Cook: The Politics of Pork

Pork dinner that is sweet and sour

Issues → September/October 2008 →

Portsmouth, RI: The Tin Can Man

Greenfield, MA: Scale Model Town in His Backyard

Best Cook: Pickling Recipes

Fitchburg cook wins blue ribbons with these recipes

Mary's Farm: Queen Bee

Keeping bee hives in the field

Issues → July/August 2008 →

Mary's Farm: Dancing in the Dark

Hot summer nights bring out pranksters

Issues → May/June 2008 →

Mary's Farm: The Digs

Telling stories and making art

Best Cook: One-Pan Jan

Molasses cookie recipe for the trail

African Slaves in Portsmouth

One woman looks for her heritage

What the Locals Know

Issues → March/April 2008 →

Classic: Making Maple Syrup

Vermont's Howrigans are a maple sugaring family

Mary's Farm: Holy Rummage

Highlights of a church rummage sale

Best Cook: Memorable Leftovers

Courtney Hunter makes do, elegantly

Roxanne Quimby: Controversy in Maine

Issues → January/February 2008 →

Mary's Farm: Bohemian Paradise

Winter in an old house

Classic: The Killing of Karen Wood

Best Cook: The Turnip King

Geoffrey Antoine turns turnips into pie

Issues → November/December 2007 →

15 Practical Party Tips

Help for holiday hosts

Mary's Farm: Orphan Holidays

Create a family around the holiday table

Weekend: Arlington, Vermont

Holiday Cookie Exchange: 25 Years Later

Recipes from the best of Wellesley's cookie bakers

Mary's Farm: Waking the Dead

15 Practical Party Tips

Help for holiday hosts

Issues → September/October 2007 →

Mary's Farm: Raging Bull

Neighbor's critter comes for visit

Issues → July/August 2007 →

Best Cook: Zucchini Muffins and Soup

Kin Shilling's recipes for summer squashes

Mary's Farm: Bats in the Bedroom

Sneak attack on a summer night

Lyme Disease: One Woman's Journey

Resources and tips to protect yourself and pets

Lyme Disease Treatment Wars

Amy Tan's Journey

Issues → May/June 2007 →

Best Cook: Strawberries

Elsie Maxwell of Cape Elizabeth, Maine

Mary's Farm: Graduation Day

A young man and a garden

Issues → March/April 2007 →

Best Cook: Greek Food

Lemons, mint, olive oil come alive in the kitchen

Mary's Farm: Police Reports

Peace Log: Police reports from a small town

The Iceland Diaries, Part Five

When We Walked on the Moon, What Language Were We Speaking?

Issues → January/February 2007 →

Best Cook: Johnnycake and Chowder

Barbara Stetson is queen of Rhode Island's johnnycakes

Mary's Farm: The Weather

The Winter of a Thousand Springs

Issues → December 2006 →

Mary's Farm: Christmas Cards

With Lots of Love

Issues → November 2006 →

Ted Ames and the Recovery of Maine Fisheries

One Maine fisherman earns a MacArthur "genius grant"

Mary's Farm: Moose Lottery

Issues → October 2006 →

Mary's Farm: Seeing Ghosts

Issues → September 2006 →

Mary's Farm: New House from Old

Kindling the fire with old wood

Issues → January/February 2005 →

Alternative Cancer Treatment Works for Billy Best

Essaic and 714X kept one young man from running away

Holidays → Entertaining →

15 Practical Party Tips

Help for holiday hosts

Blogs → Today at Mary's Farm →

The Drama of It All

Inching Toward Spring

The Dear Old Computer

A computer crash is like the house burning down

The Iceland Diaries, Part Three

Back in Time

Writing Workshop is About Telling Stories

Written word has its place in the world

Blue Heaven

Morning Glories belong in the garden

Easter Awakening

Egg Moon

The Fox Comes Out

Fiction Returns

The Shad Shack Lives!

False rumor of its demise

International Picnics

Hold the lemon!

Moonrise On the Beach

A rousing farewell to a great writer of short stories

Kindling a New Romance?

Books are more than just words

Give Us This Day Our Daily Storm

Cold Temperatures and Dangerous Storms a Daily Event in August

Update on the Kindle

Never say never

In the Orchard

Dwight Miller's sudden death provokes thoughts about survival

The Luck of the English

Saying Rabbit -- A centuries old superstition lives here

Good Bones

The end of a great feast is just the start of another

Happy Thought

The Magic of Giving

Hot Stuff on a Foggy Day

At the Wells, Maine, Chili-fest

Celebrating the Fourth in the Cemetery

Pots and Pans and Fireworks

A Stash of Perfection

The blessing of a bumper crop of tomatoes

The Bluebirds of Wall Street

Changing colors provide respite

The Rise and Fall of October

The Stock Market's Astrological Sign

Best Dog

How to Pick a Puppy

Stamped Mail

Hearing from my readers

Winter's Fire

The Work in Cordwood

The End of Television

Goodbye, Analog

Turning 100 in Style

Big Party in Florida

March Madness

Thoughts of Spring Turn to Puppies

Tales of Mud Season

A Party in Springtime

Scents of the Past

The Passing of a Good Neighbor

For the Love of a Church

Art Shows Keep a Church Going

Poetry for the Moment

Poets Gather on a Spring Evening

Away for the Weekend

Harriet Goes to the Kennel

In the Wild

Big Prices for Free Food

A Strawberry Homecoming

Strawberry Shortcake and the Old Dog

Two Dogs, One Heart

Mayday Recovers from her Illness

The End of No Summer

Time to Clean Out the Refrigerator

Gathering in the Fall

Of pumpkins and bread boxes and long friendships

Get Out There and Shoot

Old shacks are as important as castles

Homes and Gardens on Display

Perfect Living

Five Weddings and Six Funerals

Time Like an Ever-Rolling Stream

To the Lake at Last

Heat has eluded us this summer

Harriet Goes to School

The alpha dog meets her match

Filling in for Linda

"Good Morning, Yankee Publishing, how may I direct your call?

A Visit to Berlin

The Baked Bean Bailout

What There Was Not to Tell

My Own War Story

The Mystery of Marriage

Deciding to Stay

Of Sick Dogs, Of Mad Dogs

One Week in the Life of Mayday

A Prayer on the Day After Christmas

All is calm, all is still

The Metropolitan Opera in the Pines

From Aida to Applesauce

Hot Money

Church Handing Out Money

Puddings, puddings, puddings

I Come to Judge

Silent, Brilliant Storm

Leonids Now Showing in Your Backyard Theater

Divorcing Harriet

News Travels Fast in a Small Town

Deer Strike

A Day in Kennebunkport with Carolyn Chute

The Iceland Diaries, Part One

Forty-one Years Later, a Return

Ice Storm Futures

The Spoils of the Storm Bring Warmth

Pansies Still in Bloom

Wind, Snow at High Altitudes

Happy Solstice!

A "New" Holiday We Can All Share

The Death of Stephen Huneck

Dog is Love

Chicken Pie Recipe Revealed!

It's all in the biscuit

The Magic of the Magic People

The end of the story is sometimes only the start

New England Mardi Gras

Folks from the Big Easy Love Us Too

Rock of Ages

Good News Is Sometimes Hard to Find

The Sweet Smell of March

Spring Comes Early to the Hills

Out of the Zone

A High of Ninety

The Iceland Diaries, Part Seven

A Change in the Weather

Paradise Lost

Even so slight as the bobolink

What We Have Lost

What's in the News Is Not Always What's Real

Fireworks at Dusk

A Double Header in the Field

Iceland Diaries, Part Two

Frodastadir

A Writer's Holiday

Monday, Tuesday, Sunrise, Rainbow

The Iceland Diaries, Part Four

In the beginning

The Iceland Diaries, Part Six

What is Slavery? What Happened to the Indians?

The Iceland Diaries, Part Five

When We Walked on the Moon, What Language Were We Speaking?

To Blog or Not to Blog

Fighting the Revolution

Below Zero, Not so Cold

Friends Inquire: R U OK?

The Ghost of a Dread Past

Gluten-free, Lyme-free?

The Center of Town

The Death of Our Queen Mum

Mending our Ways

In debt to the company store

The GPS of Life

Turning the page on another year

Buried in Snow

Snowblowers on the Roof and Curtains on the Windows

A Night at the Oscars

Sand Dollars, Crab Trap Take-out, and the Big Snooze

Dilemma at Town Meeting

To Pave or Not to Pave