Cuisine of New England - Typical Foods

Typical Foods

• Various types of seafood (often fried, baked, broiled, or boiled):
  • Cod, haddock, halibut, scrod, shad, salmon and trout
  • Lobster, scallops, clams, quahogs, mussels, steamers
    • Fried clams
    • Lobster roll, made with a New England-style hotdog bun
    • Crab cake
    • New England clam bake, also known as New England Clam Boil
• American chop suey (not to be confused with the American Chinese dish known as chop suey)
• Anadama bread
• Apple cider, hot apple cider, and hard cider
• Apple cider doughnuts and apple cider cake
• Apple pie (traditionally served with sharp cheddar cheese, often for breakfast), apple crisp and apples themselves bought from local orchards.
• Blueberries, especially in blueberry pie, blueberry pancakes with maple syrup, and blueberry muffins
• Boston baked beans
• Boston creme doughnuts and other pastries
• Boston creme pie
• Brown bread, not to be confused with whole wheat bread; a molasses-sweetened bread, often studded with raisins, typically steamed in a coffee can
• Chowders of various types, such as clam chowder, corn chowder, fish chowder, etc.
• Cranberry cocktail, cranberry mash/crushed cranberries, jellied cranberries, cranberry sauce, cranberry relish, and cranberry bread
• Fluffernutter
• Concord grapes
• Frappes, or cabinets in Rhode Island (see milkshakes)
• Hasty pudding
• Hot buttered rum
• Ice creams from local dairies as well as from commercial producers like Ben & Jerry's
• Indian pudding
• Johnny cakes
• New England boiled dinner
• New England Pot Roast
• Parker House Rolls
• Popovers
• Red flannel hash
• Rhubarb pie, strawberry rhubarb pie, and rhubarb jam
• Succotash
• Toll House cookies (the original chocolate chip cookies)
• Whoopie pies

New England also has its own food language. In New England, hot and cold sandwiches in elongated rolls are called subs or grinders, and in still some sections of Greater Boston as Spukkies. This is opposed to the appellations hoagies or heroes in other sections of the country. Sub is short for submarine sandwich, for which Boston, Massachusetts is one of three main claimants for inventing. In Maine, the Italian sandwich—a variation specifically made up of ham or salami, cheese, peppers, pickles, tomatoes and optional oil—is popular, though usually kept distinct from other subs.

New England hot dog rolls are split on top instead of on the side.

New England has many local lagers and ales. Notable examples include Samuel Adams of the Boston Beer Company in Boston (even though the recipe for the beer does not come from New England); Sea Dog Brewing Company of Bangor; Shipyard Brewing Company of Portland; and Smuttynose Brewing Company of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Vermont-based Woodchuck Draft Cider is a popular alcoholic cider.