Friday, January 12, 2007

Winter wonderland: Is this global warming, or is it just nice out? Or is it Arizona? Maybe it was too warm... but rather than send someone with a camera out into the streets of Dublin, N.H., the town's venerable New England regional magazine, Yankee, picked a stock-photo image for the winter cover. According to the Boston Herald, the idea was to show what Yankee's  editor calls the "sense of wonder" of a child watching snowflakes... The problem is, the photo was taken in... yes... Arizona. After hearing some objections, the recently redesigned magazine will, in the future, keep its lens on the land where they eat apple pie for breakfast. Well, he didn't say it exactly that way. But Southerners and baseball fans who have their own definitions of "Yankee" may be amused by this discussion of the "fractal deconstruction of Yankeehood": "For foreigners, a 'yankee' is an American. For American southerners, a 'yankee' is a northerner. For northerners, a 'yankee' is somebody from New England. For New Englanders, a 'yankee' is somebody from Vermont. For Vermonters, a 'yankee' is somebody who eats apple pie for breakfast. If you're feeling nostalgic (or hungry) after reading that, here's a tempting-looking Maine recipe. 9:34:23 AM    comment []

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