Tag: san francisco
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What It’s Like Competing in the Cheesemonger Olympics
Last month, on January 13 and 14, I competed in the olympics of cheesemongering. If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook, you may have seen posts about the Cheesemonger Invitational (#cmisf). The invitational usually happens twice a year, during the Fancy Food Show. The winter edition is in San Francisco in January, and the…
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Reasons Why Red Hawk is Hot
This week’s cheese of the week is a special little guy I picked up in California, its native homeland. The cheese’s name is Red Hawk, and its birth was totally accidental. Red Hawk is a washed-rind triple-cream. It was born out of Mt. Tam, which is Cowgirl Creamery’s organic triple-cream soft-ripened cheese. Mt. Tam was…
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How to Experience the Bay Area Like a Cheesemonger
One whole, free day to spare in San Francisco before our course at The Cheese School began meant that Alicia and I had already spent an entire day on cheese tourism in the Bay Area before the real cheesiness started. “How cheesy is the Bay Area?” you might be asking yourself. Really cheesy, actually. Aside…
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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…