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How to Taste Cheese:Yumsugar
Click through the link below for the full article, based on a presentation recently by Culture’s Lassa Skinner. Excerpt: Milk There would be no cheese without the milk! Each milk imparts a different flavor and texture, and with more tasting, you’ll be able to distinguish the varieties without even looking on the label. Here are […]
Culture magazine: Bringing Raclette Home
Great series, Molly! “This is the final post in a series by Molly McDonough following American cheesemakers attempting to re-create traditional European cheeses. Learn about the difficulties as well as the benefits of this type of cheese making, as well as how terroir and the idea of a cheese tied to a location changes […]
Start Your Own Curd Club | Ringo Firefly for Culture
My new cheese-friend Ringo has a feature in the latest, Culture. A cheese club! How cool is that?!? Well, not as cool as having the name Ringo but… “Queso Diego began as a small gathering of friends, local cheesemakers, and cheese enthusiasts connecting through a Google forum created by current president Chris Banker. The group […]
The Pioneers of Peralillo | Culture: the word on cheese
Culture has an online piece on “The Pioneers of Peralillo” – click the links for the story and photos. “The village of Peralillo in Chile’s verdant Valle Central has so few buildings that you might miss it driving past at even moderate speed. Yet on the strength of a novel bonding of Chilean wine with […]
Soda and Cheese Pairings: crossing the fizzy frontier | Culture: the word on cheese
Here’s a new one… Will and Lassa at Culture go in search of cheese pairings with (mostly) common soda’s. I mean, we’ve all had soda with cheese – but this is an approach ala wines, beers and spirits: The full story via Soda and Cheese Pairings: crossing the fizzy frontier | Culture: the word on […]
Growing Together: Winemaking Begets Cheesemaking on Pennyroyal Farm
Nice story by Jim Clarke for Culture: Sarah Bennett was working on her master’s degree in viticulture and enology at the University of California–Davis when she met and befriended Erika Scharfen, who was studying animal science and had previously worked as a cheesemaker in France. When Scharfen came along to a wine department get-together, “she […]
Visit to Manor Farm, Home of Montgomery’s Cheddar | Culture: the word on cheese
Kate’s Blog at Culture recently featured her trip to Somerset, England. Color me JEALOUS! Have any of you been to visit Montgomery’s? Those of you who caught my last blog entry will know that I was recently in Somerset, stronghold of traditional English cloth-bound cheddar. The primary reason for the visit was to attend the […]
Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese visit, part 2 | Culture: the word on cheese
Veronique blogs for Culture (where Wedge in the Round blogs about the 2012 Birth of a Cheese). This is part 2 of 3 on here visit to Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Co. Production of Original Blue, the cheese for which Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Co. is best known, is first on the priority list for […]
A cheese revealed. First impressions of Jasper Hill’s “cheese in training”
So let’s get right down to it… last night I opened three cheeses from Jasper Hill. Each came wrapped in brown paper so aside from the rough shape, all of us receiving these new cheeses had no idea what to expect. First Impressions What greeted us were three samples, each obviously the same cheese yet… […]
