Weekends With Yankee Season 2 Premieres This April Featuring More Of New England's Hidden Gems, Unique Attractions & Regional Cuisine
BOSTON, Jan. 30, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- This April, the popular travel and lifestyle national public television series Weekends with Yankee returns for a second season to explore more of the hidden gems, spectacular landscapes, fun adventures and delectable tastes of New England.
From public-media powerhouse WGBH and the iconic Yankee magazine, Weekends with Yankee is New England like you have never seen it before: 13 episodes that highlight the region's most unique attractions, take viewers on amazing adventures, and showcase some of the most successful chefs and culinary artisans in action. Shot in a cinematic, documentary style, the series serves as an insider's guide to New England straight from the experts at Yankee magazine.
Emmy® Award–winning explorer Richard Wiese returns as series co-host with Yankee senior food editor Amy Traverso. This season, the duo embarks on separate journeys, which are woven together to create the ultimate New England road trip. Wiese is a world-class adventurer who takes viewers into the field for once-in-a-lifetime experiences. Traverso, a leading authority on New England cuisine, serves as our essential culinary tour guide. New for Season 2: an "In the Kitchen" segment, in which Traverso prepares dishes inspired by her travels and using iconic New England ingredients, along with recipes, cooking tips and expert advice for eating well in every season.
In Season 2, viewers will accompany Weekends with Yankee on journeys such as exploring Vermont's Northeast Kingdom on a mountain bike, surveying sharks off Cape Cod in Massachusetts, searching for the ultimate lobster roll in Maine, discovering a hidden garden behind the Green Monster at Fenway Park, catching the waves at Narragansett Bay's year-round surfing beaches in Rhode Island, visiting with some of the region's top chefs at locations that inspire them, and brewing craft beer at Hill Farmstead in Greensboro, Vermont, named "Best Brewery in the World" for the past three years.
Weekends with Yankee is produced by WGBH Boston's Studio Six. Funding for Weekends with Yankee is provided by the State of New Hampshire Division of Travel & Tourism, Maine Office of Tourism and Vermont Country Store.
The second season of Weekends with Yankee will premiere on public television stations nationwide starting in April 2018 (check local listings). For more information: weekendswithyankee.com.
SOURCE Yankee Magazine
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