Tag: American cheese

  • Tasting Notes: Métier Brewing Company Beers and Cheese

    Tasting Notes: Métier Brewing Company Beers and Cheese

    This year has wrought its share of terrible things, but one bright spot in the darkness is the beautiful foods that are still being produced for us to enjoy. Just as animals don’t stop producing milk, plants don’t stop growing and people don’t cease needing to eat—even when lives are threatened by a pandemic, social…

  • A Wisconsin Cheese Journey: Part 1

    A Wisconsin Cheese Journey: Part 1

    Wisconsin: it’s America’s dairy land, the state that generally comes to mind when people think about cheese in the US. As a champion for locavore eating, I have appreciated Wisconsin’s (and Vermont’s, California’s, etc.) cheesemaking heritage, but have focused my attention on the fantastic cheeses made close to home in the Pacific Northwest. Nonetheless, I…

  • How Blue Cheese is Made at Twin Sisters Creamery

    How Blue Cheese is Made at Twin Sisters Creamery

    Looking at a wedge of blue cheese with lines of blue mold rippling through it, you might assume that the mold got there by being injected into the cheese. I have heard this from time to time as an explanation to children or from one adult to another, of how this family of cheeses is…

  • What is the Difference Between Chèvre and Goat Cheese?

    What is the Difference Between Chèvre and Goat Cheese?

    “Where’s your goat cheese?” I answer this question at least three times a day at work; my response is usually not immediately helpful to the person asking. “Here is our goat cheese section in the cheese case, and over here we have two shelves of goat cheese on this wall. Is there a specific type…

  • What Happens at Cheese Camp Doesn’t Stay at Cheese Camp

    What Happens at Cheese Camp Doesn’t Stay at Cheese Camp

    Yeah, I went there—with the bad “what happens at _______ stays at ________” reference in the title AND to cheese camp. You’re welcome.   [metaslider id=890]   So I went to Cheese Camp last week. And if you are wondering what that means, sit tight; I’m about to tell you all about it. For the…

  • Brie Vs. Triple Cream: What are We Even Talking About?

    Brie Vs. Triple Cream: What are We Even Talking About?

    Brie is a very popular cheese—and duly so. People love brie, they ask for it, and they smear it on crackers, bread, bagels, bake it in pastry dough, and dump jams and preserves all over it. I encourage this behavior. Triple creams are also very popular. A lot of people come in searching for “Délice”…