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Growing Garlic and a Baba Ghanoush Recipe

by Jill Chen
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Just when the rest of my garden is looking fallen and dilapidated, it’s time to plant garlic for next year. Jill and I chatted about her garden last week and she offered to share an easy appetizer recipe that uses the garlic harvest and her garden eggplant. I’ve been roasting these two vegetables together constantly,

Goodbye Summer: An Open Letter to the Season

by Maggie Battista
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Dear Summer: Hello, my darling! I suppose we’re parting ways in just a week or so, and I feel I owe you a thank you. You were so easy on me this year and despite some of my regrets, you truly made life a breeze. Gardening I spent several weekends out of town soaking up

Zucchini Corn Relish

by Jill Chen
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Over the course of the next several months, we’re going to be sharing so many food gift ideas. Jill emailed me with this wonderful idea for a zucchini corn relish that lets you preserve late Summer flavors and store it away for a future meal or a great holiday gift. So gather up all the

Books on Cooks: Gazpacho Recipe from “Eating Together”

by Luke Poling
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As an avid reader, I’m always on the look-out for some forgotten book that will completely blow me away. I always dream of finding something that I can press copies of into friend’s hands and say, “you have to read this… you’ll love it.” After someone on Twitter gushed about this book, I was compelled

Vermont’s Pane e Salute, La Garagista & Longtrail Brewery

by Maggie Battista
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Good luck to the soul who stands between a California Dry Creek Valley Zinfandel and me. Seriously, get out of my way. I like wine and, especially, red wine. When I’m in northern California, I can drink a fancy red bottle or take my jug to the local vineyard to fill up on solid house

An Ode to Late Spring: Quick Recipe for Chive Oil

by Maggie Battista
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Quick! Rush out to your garden and chop down all the chives you can hold in one hand or in your apron or even in your shirt pocket. If you don’t have a big plant out back, the local farmers markets are blooming with chives, thick with purple blossoms. Either way, bring that bunch home

Dandelion Wine

by Jill Chen
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One of my favorite photographers and an Eat Boutique contributor, Jill Chen, comes out from behind the camera to share the steps in making this beautiful recipe, courtesy of blogger/author/friend, Georgia Pellegrini. Thanks, Jill and Georgia! -Maggie I woke up a few days ago to a front lawn full of yellow dandelions. It wasn’t planned

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

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

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