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Weekends with Yankee
New England Celebrities
Season 7
Episode 710
Amy Traverso visits with legendary chef Jacques Pépin at his Connecticut home and helps cook up a couple of his favorite French-New England fusion dishes. Then Richard Wiese gets a thrill from custom-built Ducati motorcycles, made in New England and shipped to some of Hollywood’s biggest stars.
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Explore heirloom beans in Maine and meet rehabilitated orphan bear cubs in New Hampshire.
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Learn how to spin wool into yarn, meet Syrian baker Ahmad Aissa, and meet New Hampshire artisans.
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Take in New Hampshire’s fall foliage and in Maine meet some of the nation’s finest bakers.
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Join us for a camper van trip through Maine & visit the orchards of New Hampshire’s Gould Hill Farm.
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Meet chef Sherry Pocknett, take a bike tour on the NH seacoast, & visit the Ben & Jerry’s factory.
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Visit New Hampshire’s historic Omni Mount Washington Resort and go dory-rowing in Maine.
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Stay aboard a Maine houseboat, visit the Alna Store & meet Connecticut forager/chef Chrissy Tracey.
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Join us on a Massachusetts fried-clam tour & visit Cape Cod’s Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
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Enjoy a clambake at Newport’s Castle Hill Inn & autumn trail riding and fly fishing in Vermont.
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Come along for a visit to Golden Dog Farm in Vermont & experience a New Hampshire lavender harvest.
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Join us for Massachusetts’s premier Revolutionary War reenactment & for Maine’s Great Schooner Race.
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Hitting the slopes in Vermont and “ice cut” paintings and murals in New Hampshire.