Tag: Big Cheese
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430 Pounds of Cheese
Four-hundred-and-thirty pounds of cheese. Let that number sink in: 4-3-0. It sounds like it could be a metaphor for my life. Or not a metaphor, but rather my reality—although there are way more than 430 pounds of cheese in my shop. It could also refer to my four days in San Francisco for the Three-Day…
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Watch us Cut the Cheese!
Many people don’t think about how their cheese gets to them. My mom even said she never thought about how cheese gets into those nice wedge shapes at the store, but assumed a machine cuts the pieces. In the shop I work at, we actually cut our cheese by hand–well, with a wire. Mostly that’s…
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Gruyère and Comté: Two of a Kind
Gruyère: a lot of people know what it is. Many more come into the store looking for it because a recipe told them to. And even more people have no idea what I’m talking about right now. In his book “Cheese Primer,” Steven Jenkins calls Swiss Gruyère, “Everything Swiss Emmental isn’t and wishes it were”…
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Who’s the Big Cheese Now?
My cheesemonger bestie is showing this 180-pound wheel of French Emmentaler who’s boss today. Which can only mean that I have some big plans ahead for a post (or maybe postS? Uh oh!) about Swiss-style cheeses like this big boy.