A one-woman house,
built around your table.
Larder & Oak started in a Triple Crown kitchen with a single oak plank, a Derby Day party that ran out of food too early, and a friend who said: you should be selling this.
Maggie grew up in Boone County, the youngest of four. Her grandmother kept a real larder — a small unheated room off the back porch where country hams hung from the rafters and apples sat in straw through January. She watched her mother host bridge nights with cheese on Ritz crackers and felt, even at nine, that there was a more generous version of that.
Twenty years later, after a culinary degree from Sullivan and seven years cooking the line at restaurants in Cincinnati and Louisville, she came back to Florence and started building boards out of her home kitchen. The Derby Day board for the Marshalls in 2019 led to three more orders that week. By the end of that year there were eighty-six.
Today the studio is two blocks from where Maggie grew up. She still personally selects every cheese, hand-slices every charcuterie meat, and signs the card on every gift box. It is, by design, a small operation — capped at what one charcutier and a small Saturday-morning team can do properly.
“I only make boards I would put on my own table on a Sunday. If it doesn’t belong there, it doesn’t belong on yours.”
44 Bluegrass Pkwy
Triple Crown · New Florence, KY 41042
Tue–Sat · 10–6 by appt.
(859) 555-0814 — Maggie picks up
Where the board comes from.
We work with a small set of producers Maggie has visited in person — regional first, national-premium where the regional doesn’t exist.
Cured meats
Stehlin’s Meat Market (Cincinnati) for our country ham and bacon. Olli Salumeria, Creminelli, and La Quercia for European-style charcuterie. Boar’s Head for Saturday brunch boards.
Cheeses
Kenny’s Farmhouse Cheese (Austin, KY) — Maggie’s longest-standing partner. Capriole Farmstead (Indiana). Jasper Hill, Cypress Grove, and Rogue Creamery rounding out the case.
Bread & accompaniments
Sixteen Bricks (Northside, Cincinnati) bakes our levain. Bourbon Barrel Foods (Louisville) for the smoked salts. Local honey from a single beekeeper in Walton, KY.
Northern Kentucky. Greater Cincinnati.
Same-day hand-delivery across Boone, Kenton, Campbell, and Hamilton counties. Gift boxes ship overnight, anywhere in the continental U.S.
Reasonable questions.
Write to Maggie.
Every note goes straight to her inbox. She answers personally, usually within a day.