FOOD GIFT LOVE: 100 Recipes to Make, Wrap & Share
Maggie Battista Heidi Murphy
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
October 13, 2015
$25.00/Hardcover
ISBN-13: 978-0544387676
Maggie Battista is the founder of Eat Boutique. She started Eat Boutique as a blog in 2007, discovering the best small-batch foods by boutique food makers. Maggie continues to offer unique and delicious handmade food in tasting subscriptions and seasonal gift boxes for food fans and home cooks. Maggie also hosts Eat Boutique Markets, where she spotlights cookbook authors and food makers. She’s written for Style Me Pretty, Food52, Time Out New York, Spencer Magazine, and writes a cocktail column for the popular wedding blog, Snippet & Ink. Maggie has also created retail experiences for the largest floral and event design company in New England. She regularly travels far distances to find the next great chef, farmer, food maker or host. You can follow her worldwide – and homemade – gastronomic adventures on Twitter at @mizmaggieb or @eatboutique.
In FOOD GIFT LOVE, Maggie Battista, a food-gift guru and rising star of the blog world, celebrates her expertise in, and enthusiasm for, small-batch, hand-crafted foods. She features 100 memorable, edible gifts for any occasion with simple, delicious recipes, detailed wrapping instructions, and stunning photography. There are countless ways to share the pleasures of food with people you care about—from simple homemade infused salts and sugars to instant-gratification gifts like fresh ricotta and flavored butters; from jams, pickles, and vinaigrettes to irresistible cookies, desserts, savories, and spirits that will impress fellow food fans. There’s helpful information for creating your own Food Gift Love pantry at home as well as creative guidance on how to wrap food gifts with style. This book will inspire cooks, food-lovers, and DIY fans to be year-round food gifters.