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Eat Boutique Editorial Planning

by Shelby Larsson
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Do your meeting agendas typically include time set aside for gossip, socializing, and afternoon tea featuring espresso and clementine panna cotta? Mine don’t either, unless, of course, I’m at Eat Boutique headquarters for a full day of editorial planning. Maggie and I started these planning sessions slowly, months and months ago. Over glasses of wine

Eat Boutique now on Gilt Taste

by Maggie Battista
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I was going to start this post a very different way. Here’s what I was going to post: “I am practicing the art of stopping. I go go go and now I find time to stop… Stop to pick chives in my garden Stop to eat a full breakfast Stop to enjoy the taste of

Wanna Join Our Bunch?

by Maggie Battista
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Eat Boutique is recruiting a few additional contributors to join our blogger bunch. If you love the homemade & homegrown food movement as much as we do, we want to hear from you. Our goal is to give our readers daily updates on authentic food, old-fashioned hospitality, and small business spirit and vision. New bloggers

Hello Paris

by Maggie Battista
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[The gorgeous photo above was taken by Johnny Santo Domingo. Don't you love it?] Over the next few months, this site may appear a little… foreign… to some of you. I’ve taken on a new gig that needs me to spend some time exploring Paris. I’ll be eating, walking, shopping, photographing and generally visiting with

You Like Me, You Really Like Me

by Maggie Battista

Well, someone over at Mashable does! I am super lucky. Yesterday, Mashable published a list of the 55+ Foodies to Follow on Twitter and I made the list! I’m so grateful and honored to be in the company of fabulous foodies who tweet on food. The list covers celebrity chefs, food bloggers (that’s me!), food

Why I Cook

by Maggie Battista

There are so many reasons to cook. Your reasons may be different than my reasons. But my reasons are mine. I was reminded of why I cook this past weekend. First, I don’t cook for the food. Let me repeat: I don’t cook for the food. There are no photos of food in this post

New Kitchen Holds Up Posts

by Maggie Battista

Please pardon my lack of posts in the last five days. It’s been one of those weeks where on the very same day your home loan gets approved so you can expand and renovate your kitchen your entire family agrees to visit YOU for Thanksgiving which is five weeks away. Five. Weeks. Away. Needless to

EAT Boutique…?

by maggie

Yes, EAT Boutique. It sounds simple but when the words spilled from my lips, I knew eating boutique was far more than just dining at fine, one-of-a-kind restaurants. I have dined at some very fine restaurants – like so many hard-core restaurant fans – and I’m a big fan of fine food and service. But