What You'll Need
Whole Foods, Trader Joes, and local food boutiques are great places to source beautiful, tasty elements for your grazing board. As you shop, aim for a spectrum of flavors (savory to sweet), comfort levels (familiar to exotic), and colors (think "rainbow").
Six Element Shopping Guide
1. Cheese
Aim for one hard and one soft cheese.
Pictured: Triple Crème Brie, White Cheddar, and Tête de Moine Rosettes
2. Meat
Your favorite cured or air-dried meats like proscuitto, salami, ham, and summer sausage are all great choices.
Pictured: Porter Road Salumi Sampler (Soppressata, Calabrian, Black Pepper Sorghum, and Georgia Blue salamis)
3. Savory
Nuts, olives, pickles, dips and veggies.
Pictured: French radishes, rainbow baby carrots, sugar snap peas
4. Sweet
Fresh or dried fruits, jams, and chocolate help round out the palate.
Pictured: Theo Sea Salt Dark Chocolate, pomelo citrus segments, dried blueberries, and sweetened dried orange slices.
5. Crackers
Our Artisan Cracker Kit is a great place to start, as it's packed with an assortment of our most popular crackers to give your board a variety of flavors from nutty Emmer Farro to spicy Harissa.
Pictured: Red Fife Crackers
6. Garnish
Fresh herbs or edible flowers serve as nice finishing touch.
Pictured: Fresh cut rosemary.
Directions
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Select a board that suits the size of your crowd. Cutting boards, large platters, and serving trays are great, but we particularly love colorful cookie sheets as a means to transport your beautiful creation. Find colorful cookie sheets, like those pictured, at places like Great Jones and Bornn Enamelware.
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Start with the larger elements, like cheese and meats as an anchor to your board.
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Add your savory and sweet elements.
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Fill in all the extra space with crackers.
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Add fresh herbs or edible flowers as a finishing touch.
