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Backyard Boutique Farming

by Maggie Battista
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In addition to supporting boutique food businesses, all of us at Eat Boutique endeavor to focus on the great food growing in our own back yard. I’ve been especially busy planning my vegetable garden since… well… since I plucked my last squash late last year. Even while gorging on amazing local food in Paris all

Sweet Mint Tea, Grande Mosquée de Paris

by Maggie Battista
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Have you ever had sweet mint tea in a just-blossoming garden filled with bright blue furniture and bright-eyed strangers, all of you just waiting for the minutes to tick, tock, tick, tock away? I have.
And the tea was so very sweet. It was honey-hued, the consistency of a sugar syrup. With a taste like candy,

Growing Baby Lettuce

by Heather Atwood
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Goose Cove Gardens is one of Gloucester’s best treasures, a garden nursery with the healthiest plants and the nicest Karma.  Barbara, the lovely straw-hatted owner, is always protecting me from myself: “Do you really need five new Russian Sage, Heather?”
Ever the educators, Barbara and the ladies from Goose Cove Gardens are offering a midwinter course

Boutique Restaurant Herb Gardens

by Maggie Battista

While in London last month, a lovely colleague took me to lunch at a Mexican restaurant in Covent Garden called Wahaca, named after the Oaxaca province of Mexico that inspires this food. The restaurant was large, open and airy, and felt more like a modern cafeteria than a neighborhood Mexican eatery. The menu is vast,

Gardening & Farming Come Together in My Garden

by Maggie Battista

I’m the type of girl who loves filling her garden with loads of chic plants that are equally farm-style and modern. I love the juxtaposition of country-style hostas alongside sharp, dark (almost black) coleus leaves. I have several gardens – one filled with bright chartreuse, deep green and touches of pink, the other filled with

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