Your neighbor comes over with an armful of the bloated green vegetable, and the farmers markets are flush with zucchini of every stripe. We offer you 12 great reasons to embrace the bounty with enthusiasm and a good chef’s knife. 1 It’s a gateway vegetable. A fresh, flavorful zucchini will remind you of all the riches available now at local…
It’s just a little luncheonette-style spot with a counter and a few tables, but Rincon Colombiano offers big, bold flavors in traditional Columbian dishes with some familiar ingredients merged with flavors you might never have tried before. Start with a couple of crispy empanadas with beef or chicken for just a buck each, along with arepa, a cornmeal cake served…
If my family were the Kennedys, I would be the last one picked for touch football. It’s not that I am particularly clumsy or slow, too short or too old. It’s just that I am too rational. Why waste a perfectly good afternoon throwing around a dead, inflated mammal when you could be solving a crossword puzzle or listening to…
Begin in Groveton, a former lumber town north of the White Mountains, where the Ammonoosuc River used to be filled with logs waiting for the pulp mills. Now a park holds an old coal-fired logging railroad engine and caboose beside the bypassed 1852 Groveton Covered Bridge. Follow US 3 north through town to Emerson’s Outdoor Equipment (www.emersonoutdoors.com), known throughout the…
The power of mind over biology is a mystery that science has just begun to understand, but healers from the the Eastern world did not wait for science to break the mind-body code. Elaborate systems of curing and preventing disease have been developed by trial and error, and applied by faith in an invisible energy called “qi.” It was almost…
Sometimes the hardest part of a room makeover is finding where to start. We asked nine designers to take us along on the design process, from inspiration to the final touch. The project was eight rooms in the 2007 Old York Designer Show House — a Shingle-style home near the sea. Above: Anne Cowenhoven of Accent and Design created a…
Since I recently turned 55, and since all twin-digit birthdays are special, I decided to celebrate this “mid life” (presuming a life span of 110) milestone by doing something I’d never done before. I had never climbed a mountain — never even driven to the top of one. I know that in New Hampshire this is sort of like admitting…
To read the fevered letters to the editors of Granite State newspapers invoking his name, one would think that General John Stark had stumbled on the Battle of Bennington only by chance. That he’d really run out for cigarettes. Well, probably just tobacco, since cigarettes weren’t around when New Hampshire’s favorite Revolutionary War hero was kicking British butt. According to…
To understand carpal tunnel syndrome, it helps to have a visual metaphor. Picture a train going into a narrow tunnel. Now imagine the walls of that tunnel closing in, squeezing the train until it can no longer stay on track and the engineer can’t read the signals up ahead. Not vivid enough? OK, then picture yourself on the Pirates of…
The idea is the thing. Bruce Iverson’s Hsieh-i brush paintings capture the essence of the object, be it bamboo, orchid or chrysanthemum. Paintings are not done from set-ups, but by observing nature and then expressing the “ch’i” with simple, yet controlled brush strokes that can take years to master. Iverson works in limited colors or just black ink, quoting an…
