Fitness experts will tell you that hiking burns between 360 calories per hour for a 125-pound person and 504 calories per hour for a 175-pound person. For this North Country-based, avid-hiking 170-pound writer, the reward at the end of the…
Picnic Pickings We asked a few top-notch chefs and local foodies for a few good recipes worthy of a gourmet’s picnic basket. Some items are super simple, some are complex, but all are perfect for a summer evening concert or…
Say “modular” to most people and their first reaction will most likely be one of two things: “Aren’t they the same as a mobile home?” or “They’re just rickety cookie-cutter box houses.” But skeptics take one look at Kevin and…
The McDonough family, owners of the Homestead Restaurants and Fratello’s Ristorantes Italiano, has opened their newest Fratello’s on the Kancamagus Highway in Lincoln. The family spent spring months transforming the historic Timbermill Pub on Route 112 into a casual dining…
During a recent trip to Chicago, to attend the 19th annual conference of the City and Regional Magazine Association, I had a chance to ride an elevator to the top floor of the John Hancock Center, I enjoyed a perfect…
100 Years Later I read your piece on the “Great Flag” in the July issue. I’ve always been fascinated by that photo and the effort it took to create the flag. There is another photo from that period that I…
One Sunday morning just before the start of summer, I was at Mass when I heard of an unusual second collection. It was for repair of the air conditioner. Never have I felt so blessed in not giving. After Mass,…
How do you choose a pediatrician? Interview the candidates, says the current wisdom on parenting. You are choosing — hiring, you could say — a person who will be critical to the health and well being of your child. You…
While in college, I wrote a full-length play set in a tiny Hampton Beach rental cottage. It was a clever thing to do, I thought, because the cheap little cottages look a lot like used stage scenery anyway. Even the…
Most people think “Shaker cooking” means simplicity, and though they are able to appreciate the aesthetic in architecture and furniture, when applied to cooking the ideal of simplicity suggests boring restrictions, as though a meager bowl of gruel would be…
French-Canadian food has been hard to find except at Memère’s house and in the diner ambiance of Chez Vachon (625-9660) on Manchester’s West Side, where Chef/owner Paul Normand serves poutine with the proper tangy cheese curds, hearty tourtiere (pork pie)…
OK, you want to create the perfect Mexican meal. First, you buy a plane ticket to Oaxaca, Michoacan, Mexico City and the Guadalajara region. In those places, you gather all the ingredients — agave for the tequila, chipotle and tomatillos…
The Modern gets modern. Word has it that a new upscale Japanese restaurant will be opening soon in the location of the former Modern Restaurant in Nashua. Initial plans are underway also for an Irish pub, with entertainment, in the…
The minute the temperature climbs above 60 degrees, the smell of charcoal-broiled food wafts through my neighborhood. I’m pretty sure that my husband and I are the only two people on our street who don’t own a grill, or even…
Sure, every American has a right to feel all red, white and blue on the 4th of July, but it seems New Hampshire’s Seacoast should have special flag-waving privileges on that day. After all, the American Revolution really started there.…
Ah, summer! Long sunny days, warm evenings, more time in the great outdoors. After a long, cold winter, we just can’t wait to get out and enjoy the road, the water, the trails. Out comes the bike or the kayak…
Praise from the Past Thank you for writing such a wonderful feature [Modern Day Time Travelers, May 2004]. It is so well written, I can’t say enough about the structure, the facts, the flavor. It’s simply wonderful. I never told…
It’s a famous image of a simpler time: the 1914 display of the “Great Flag” created by the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company. And it’s a good image to gaze at from time to time, especially in times like these. “The largest…
Portsmouth’s Muddy River Smokehouse (430-9582, www.muddyriver.com) keeps winning awards for barbecue, whether it be from this magazine or TV’s Phantom Gourmet. Pulled pork is the most popular item at the Congress Street restaurant and is slow cooked for about 15…
Interior designer Susan Turner created a patio at her Peterborough home to make to most of the bucolic setting amidst the highlands, ponds and a meadow with cows. Her vision was to re-create the open, airy feeling she knew from…
As newlyweds — and long before they could afford it — John Sabatino and his wife, Karen, dreamed of a vacation home that was both on the water and close to skiing. So they pulled out a map of New…
The famed Arrows Restaurant of Maine is planning a second location in Portsmouth on Middle Street. The chef/owners Clark Frasier and Mark Gaier were nominated by the James Beard Foundation as Best Chefs of the Northeast in March, 2004. National…
What attracted you to bees? Most people do their very best to avoid them. I think I’m fascinated with their social structure, and their ability to adapt to conditions and mobilize work tasks to adjust to those conditions. Do you…
After Before and After We enjoyed your well-written article on our home very much [April issue]. Even though we’ve lived through the redecorating experience, it was lots of fun to see the before and after. My daughter got a kick…
When I was still quite new to New Hampshire, my family gathered up here for a visit and a quick reunion. We spent most of the time just hanging out together, but when they were preparing to leave I insisted…
