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
Tuesday through Saturday
7 a.m. to 2 p.m.
FREE WI-FI
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
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
Tailgate parties
Please email Laura at thefoodsmithduxbury@gmail.com. We can tailor-make a menu for your event! And we LOVE a good theme!
DRHS Historic House Tour Boxed Lunch
September 19, 2025
The foodsmith, in duxbury’s historic halls corner, is offering a PICNIC lunch that will be waiting for you at the nathaniel Winsor house when it’s time to take a break from HOOFING IT through the six historic homes on the tour. Lunch will be available at 11:30 a.m.
HERE’S WHAT’S ON THE MENU:
2 Old School Chicken Salad Sliders OR 2 Sprouty Chickpea Sliders (v)
A packet of Community Snacks Sea Salt Chips
Roxie's Blondie or Raspberry Crumble Bar
Spindrift Lemon Seltzer or Poland Spring Water
$20.95
OR
Cobb Salad with Turkey OR Kickin' Kale + Quinoa Salad (v)
7-Grain Dinner Roll with Butter
Roxie's Blondie or Raspberry Crumble Bar
Spindrift Lemon Seltzer or Poland Spring Water
$24.95
PLEASE EMAIL THEFOODSMITHDUXBURY@GMAIL.COM BY THURSDAY MORNING, SEPT. 18, TO ORDER YOUR BOXED LUNCH. WE WILL BILL YOU VIA OUR SQUARE POS SYSTEM. THE INVOICE IS PAYABLE ONLINE. WE THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING OUR ITTY BITTY SHOP ON STANDISH STREET AS WELL AS OUR FRIENDS AT THE DUXBURY RURAL & HISTORICAL SOCIETY!