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Sweets & Savories

17 Standish Street × SOUTH dUXBURY × MA × (781) 934-0134

 
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Bakery + Lunch

DUXBURY, MA

 

All the Foodsmith’s products, baked breakfast goods, lunch fare, desserts, pies and other yummy eats are selected and prepared by cook/baker/owner Laura Raposa.

Laura grew up in a family that owns a large bakery wholesale supply business serving southern New England. She has a lifetime of experience watching how successful bakeries worked and why others failed.

For more than two decades she worked as one-half of “The Inside Track,” one of greater Boston’s best-known newspaper columns.  Her job – that also included stints on TV and radio -- brought her in close contact with the city’s brightest culinary stars and the people who marketed their businesses.

While a columnist at the Boston Herald, Laura also operated a small catering business. Later, she worked briefly at Flour Bakery & Café, Boston’s most successful multi-bakery business. She also consulted on the development of a gluten-free bakery on the South Coast.

Laura has also attended many instructional programs and "boot camps" at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y. and King Arthur Flour’s Baking Education Center in Norwich, VT.

While in the throes of working up a business plan for The Foodsmith, she volunteered as a chef once a week preparing dinner for students and teachers at Paraclete Academy, an after-school program in South Boston. She also provided private cooking instruction, catered in clients’ homes and played wedding planner for a friend's big day at the Commander's Mansion in Watertown.

Laura is married to retired Boston Globe business columnist Steven Syre. They live in Scituate with their two spoiled felines, Pippa, a tabby, and Emma, a British blue.

In her spare time (add a chuckle here), Laura is an enthusiastic historic preservation buff and is on the board of the Westport Historical Society. (Also, the Foodsmith is an enthusiastic business member of the Duxbury Rural and Historical Society.)

Check out her blog at www.lauraraposa.com.

The Foodsmith is dedicated to sourcing seasonal ingredients at local farms. Throughout the local growing season, the business supports local farms through Eva’s Garden in Dartmouth, Skinny Dip Farm in Westport, Plato’s Harvest un Middleboro, R&C Farms in Scituate and Cretinon's in Kingston.

Laura is a groupie of farmers' markets as well as farm stands. You'll always know where she's spent her day off when produce from Walker's in Little Compton, RI or organic cranberries raked from Squanit Bog in East Freetown pop up on the menu!

 

Phone

781-934-0134

 

Location

17 Standish Street
P.O. Box 609
South Duxbury, MA
02332

 

Hours

TEMPORARILY CLOSED UNTIL LATE NOVEMBER!

FREE WI-FI

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Contact Us


The FoodsmitH, LLC

We are located at 17 Standish St., South Duxbury, MA 02332 (next to Scoops ice cream shop)
Call: 781-934-0134
Email: thefoodsmithduxbury@gmail.com

Our mailing address is The Foodsmith, P.O. Box 609, Duxbury, MA 02331

Check out The Foodsmith's Facebook page, follow @FoodsmithDUX on Twitter and we're on Instagram as thefoodsmithduxbury

For purchase of eGift cards go to this site: https:///gift/6VTRANW1JSNRY/order

 

 
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The Foodsmith is temporarily closed so Laura can recover from SPINE surgery.

ON-SITE Catering will resume in JANUARY.

NEED CATERING? WE DO IT ALL!

  • Bridal and baby showers

  • Baptism brunches and luncheons

  • Cocktail parties

  • Corporate luncheons

  • Remembrance meals

  • Real estate open houses

  • Photo Shoots

  • Family dinners

  • Individual Boxed Lunches

  • Picnics for the beach or boat

Please email Laura at thefoodsmithduxbury@gmail.com. We can tailor-make a menu for your event!

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