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Buttermilk Scones

by Shelby Larsson
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I don’t know about you, but we are REALLY excited about the royal wedding here at Eat Boutique.  Lovers of all things British, we get especially excited about the notion of the afternoon tea and all of the lovely things that go along with it, like clotted cream, light and fluffy scones, bright jams –

{giveaway} Spring Gift Box

by Maggie Battista
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{This giveaway has closed. The winner will be announced on our Facebook page on April 7!} Spring is a tough time of year in New England. While the rest of the world is treated to warmer temperatures and sprouting flower buds – or so it feels to me – New England dances between melting ice

A Community Lunch at Bondir Restaurant in Cambridge

by Maggie Battista
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For me, 2011 is about building offline communities. When the clock struck midnight on December 31 of last year, I made a pledge to  evolve all my online food conversations into real life meetings. It just seemed a bit ridiculous that I had all sorts of friends in the ether, sweet folks who have listened

Valentine’s Day: Send Our Gift Box

by Maggie Battista
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I’m a big fan of Valentine’s Day. I’ve never seen it as a day to solely celebrate your main squeeze. I just want to fete each love of my life – my husband, my family, my friends. Gosh, I remember when we were all children, carting our heart-shaped candy and boxes of heart-shaped cards to

Lebovitz’s Racines Cake

by Shelby Larsson
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Taza Chocolate, located in Somerville, Massachusetts, might be a bit too big and successful to be considered “boutique” (boutique meaning, “small, exclusive and handmade”) these days, however, their small business attitude paired with an intense focus on quality ingredients and sustainable production make them a company that we can’t stop talking about. And luckily, the

Mini-Guide: Eat Boutique Paris

by Maggie Battista
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I spent one-third of 2010 living and eating in Paris. Is there really anything to do in Paris besides eat? I suppose shopping, when I’m not eating. After now 16 weeks there, I found so many tiny food gems that lured me back on more than one occasion. While I can’t go so far as

Casual Eating in Paris’ Haute Marais

by Amy Thomas
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As some of you know, I started working for a little boutique travel business earlier this year called Haven in Paris. I’m so in love with our company and our mission, to help travelers have amazing trips in Paris, Provence and Tuscany by renting one of our chic properties. I’ve also started contributing to the

The Bookmill, Montague, MA

by Shelby Larsson
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Have you ever visited a place, and immediately recognized that it was special?  Your heart may have quickened a bit; you had the urge to explore every nook and cranny; you may have simply wanted to move right in and make yourself at home.  Could this be described as having a crush on a building? 

Salt Traders & Didi Davis Foods, Ipswich, MA

by Heather Atwood
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Leaving Salt Traders, I clutched a bag full of various salts to my chest the way a child holds their Halloween candy, and I eyed the hefty pink salt licks, great chunks of Pakistani crystals, piled at the end of the table, heedlessly not wondering what the hell I would do with them when I

Flat Black Coffee Company, Boston

by Shelby Larsson
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A few months ago, I gave up on my coffee machine. I was sick of the dull, bland and at times very bitter coffee that it produced. I stopped making coffee at home and took up a rather expensive quest of trying to find a really good, consistent coffee shop that was convenient to my

Liddabit Sweets, Brooklyn

by Jessica Merrill
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I’m crazy about salted caramels. This past Christmas I even got it into my head to make them as gifts. I got out my candy thermometer, and with that in hand, I confidently watched over my boiling pot of goodness (sugar, corn syrup and fresh vanilla bean), diligently checking the temperature until it reached 245°.

Outstanding in the Field

by Heather Atwood
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This is a story of a long table draped in white, lined with perfectly placed wooden seats, standing in the middle of a field, waiting for the guests to dine beneath flickering swallows’ tails, along-side butterflies and trailing bean vines. Outstanding in the Field began in 1999, in Santa Cruz, California, when a man named

What is Boutique Wine?

by Chloé Mathieu Phillips & Dennis Phillips
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Most people define boutique wine as “small production”, “artisanal” or even “cult”.  But what does it really mean for a wine to be boutique? Over the past few weeks, we’ve tried to highlight wines from lesser known areas, like New Mexico or Jasnieres.  We’ve also tasted some wine where only a few hundred cases are

Chive Sustainable Catering

by Chelsea Bardot Lewis
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Chive is a female-powered, sustainable catering and event design company just budding in Boston, Massachusetts. The passion that Jen, Julia and Lindsey have for seasonal flavors, environmental sustainability, and the Boston community is infectious. It’s impossible not to get excited about their vision for Chive. I met Chef Lindsey Wishart almost four years ago when

Chenin Blanc from Jasnières

by Chloé Mathieu Phillips & Dennis Phillips
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We had such a delicious, fascinating wine last weekend, we thought we absolutely had to share it here. There was only one problem however: we had trouble figuring out how to describe it. We were not the only ones: a quick search showed that Chris of the excellent Full Pour wine blog felt exactly the

Farm Girl Faves: New England Food Spots

by Chelsea Bardot Lewis
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I moved to the north shores of Massachusetts almost four years ago when my husband took a job at Green Meadows Farm in Hamilton, Massachusetts. I had been living in Somerville, Massachusetts, which I loved, and was a bit anxious about moving to the suburbs. I was amazed at how quickly we were integrated into

Les Petits Mitrons

by Maggie Battista
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I attended my first Paris party last week, and arrived with this apple and rhubarb tart from Les Petits Mitrons. (More on that Paris party in another post soon.) I was so enraptured by the crunchy crust, glazed apples and tender rhubarb that I fell in love on the spot. I carefully prepared for its

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