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Hello, Eaters! Food should be as beautiful as it tastes, and no one understands that as well as Nicole Simper, the “culinary maven” of Maven Oak Creative . Simper creates gorgeously delicious charcuterie platters featuring cured meats, cheeses, fruits, vegetables, dips and other accouterments. Scrolling through her Instagram will make you crave prosciutto.
I first heard about Simper’s work when I wrote in Utah Eats about a “back to school” pop-up that happened at Loki Coffee last weekend. Beside other Utah vendors, most of them having to do with food, Simper was selling “boujee Lunchables,” as the event post on Instagram described. (Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) Nicole Simper, the proprietor of Maven Oak Creative, where she creates intricate and artistic charcuterie platters, seen here in Murray on Monday, Aug.
26, 2024. The charcuterie packs — perfect for one or two people — were just a sampling of her larger platters, which can feed 15 nibblers or more. And these charcuterie platters are next level visually.
Simper is a bona fide artist — she studied photography at the University of Utah — so she has a creative eye for arranging every slice of cheese and fruit just so. She’s been in business fo.
