THE GOOD LIFE
Lindsay Anvik makes custom charcuterie boards that include soft and hard cheeses, cured meats, fresh baked crostini, and flowers.
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Boards for Bae
New York transplants Rob Henricks and Lindsay Anvik turn custom charcuterie boards into a second career
HUSBAND-AND-WIFE DUO Rob Henricks and Lindsay Anvik moved from New York City to Charlotte A last year, looking for a good place to raise a family. DELECTABLE She was a professional development coach doing VALENTINE leadership training around the world, and he was a restaurant consultant with mad knife skills. They’d Babe & Butcher planned to keep their day jobs, but that all changed offers a heartafter they hosted a party in their home for Charlotte’s shaped board for 24 Foundation, which raises money to fight cancer. Valentine’s Day. The duo served a charcuterie board and wowed guests Instead of flowers, with what they thought of as just a fun hobby. send a charcuterie “I’d been bringing them to friends’ homes, and board to your they would always ask me to make them,” Anvik valentine—or treat says, “but this was the first time strangers were The couple could see that charcuterie boards your co-workers asking who catered it and how they could order were having a moment. But Babe & Butcher boards to something one.” The couple brainstormed names for their are more than just meat, cheese, and crackers. unexpected. company, found a commercial kitchen to work in, Theirs include soft and hard cheeses, cured meats, and officially launched Babe & Butcher in fall 2019. fresh baked crostini, and flowers. They also create “We both were driving two-seater convertibles at the time,” fruit boards and dessert boards with more than two pounds Anvil says. “We thought it would take a year for it to really of chocolate, meringues, and cookies. Each order comes on a take off, but after I had to rent an SUV three times in one week cutting board, monogrammed with their rose and butcher just to deliver the boards, we realized we probably needed a knife logo, that customers can either keep or return for 10 bigger car.” percent off their next order.
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CHARLOTTEMAGAZINE.COM // FEBRUARY 2020
PETER TAYLOR
BY MICHELLE BOUDIN
